Bigamy and the Creole Beauty: Race Anxiety in Dr. Wortle's School (1881)

• Published in: Reforming Trollope pp. 133 - 165
• Main Author: Morse, Deborah Denenholz
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2013
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Mixed Race Woman; Ayala's Angel; Young Man; Beautiful Quadroon; Trollope's Palliser Novels; Great Bodily Exertion; Louis Trevelyan; British West Indies; John Caldigate; George Stubbs; Louisiana Creole; Framley Parsonage; Uncle Tom's Cabin; Sir John Tenniel; Jamaica Committee; Morant Bay Rebellion; Governor Eyre Controversy; Kate Field; Quadroon Ball; Jonathan Stubbs; White Creole; Creole Woman; Wortle's School

In the last chapter, I offered a postcolonial reading of Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right (1869) that focused upon the marriage of the upper-class Englishman Louis Trevelyan to a beautiful, voluptuous dark woman he meets in the fictitious Mandarin Islands, which I argue are the British W...