Bibliograph

Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope

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Label

Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Phineas Finn

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Anthony Trollope

Series statement

Palliser series, 2

Summary

Phineas Finn is a novel by Anthony Trollope and the name of its leading character. The novel was first published as a monthly serial from October 1867 to May 1868 in St Paul's Magazine. It is the second of the 'Palliser' series of novels. Its sequel, Phineas Redux, is the fourth novel in the series. The character of Phineas Finn is said to have been partly inspired by Sir John Pope Hennessy (grandfather of the museum director of the same name), a Roman Catholic from Cork, who was elected as an 'Irish Nationalist Conservative' Member of Parliament for King's County in 1859. It deals with both British parliamentary politics of the 1860s, including voting reform (secret ballot and eliminating rotten boroughs and Irish tenant-right) and Finn's romances with women of fortune, which would secure his financial future

Target audience

adult

Classification