''Ayala's Angel'' is an 1881 novel written by English author
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope ( ; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire ...
between 25 April and 24 September 1878, although it was not published until 1881. It was written as a stand-alone novel rather than as part of a series, though several of the minor characters appear in other novels by Trollope.
The plot focuses on two orphaned sisters, Lucy and Ayala Dormer, Ayala especially, and their trials, with first their relatives, and then of the heart, though as in most Trollope novels, pages are given over to
subplot
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s related to the main plot.
Due to a lack of success in his immediately preceding novels, Trollope had difficulty publishing ''Ayala's Angel''. It was first published in the United States, in the periodical ''
Cincinnati Commercial'', which, as was the usual custom for novels at the time, released it in increments, probably of four chapters per issue, between 6 November 1880 and 23 July 1881, for which illustrations were drawn, which were left out of the British publication, released in May 1882.
References
Further reading
Ayala's Angel: Essays and Threads of All Sorts by Group Members of Trollop-l
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1881 British novels
Novels by Anthony Trollope
Novels about orphans
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