1864
CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? | By | Anthony Trollope, | Author of | “Orley Farm,” “Doctor Thorne,” “Framley Parsonage,” etc. | With Illustrations. | In Two Volumes. | London: | Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. | 1864. | [The right of Translation is reserved.]
8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 320; Vol. II., pp. vi, 320.
This story was partly formed on a comedy, The Noble Jilt, written by Trollope in 1850 and refused by George Bartley, the actor-manager. It became very dear to the author as the first of a series that continued with Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux, and The Prime Minister. Can You Forgive Her? appeared in twenty shilling numbers from August 1863, and Trollope received £3525.
Each volume contains twenty illustrations. Those in the first volume were by “Phiz” (Hablot K. Browne), but Frederick Chapman, the publisher, considered them so bad and incongruous that the remainder were made by a Miss Taylor.