Chancery

Set in the recent past, The Channings details the trials of a devout middle-class family. As the novel opens, they discover that a legacy they had been counting on has been denied them by Chancery

AJV 's mother was born Agnes Birtwhistle in 1752 at Skipton in Yorkshire, into a family which was a local power there and over the Scottish border at Gatehouse of Fleet. Anna Jane...

His father, Thomas Anthony Trollope , was a barrister in the Court of Chancery until his career was jeopardized by his unacceptably rude behaviour.

This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...

Menella's mother, Mary Smedley, was a great-grand-daughter of George Bellas , a London lawyer and politician of somewhat mixed reputation who died leaving a substantial estate which led to huge family gatherings in Westmorland of...

It may have been after the couple had separated that SLP 's father died, and her husband brought a suit in Chancery to overthrow the will by which Sarah was to inherit independently of his...

The initial financial crisis lasted for two years and concerned RMR 's small encumbered (that is to say, debt-ridden) estate, inherited from her father in King's County. Their lawyer, Mr Buswell , misrepresented its...

It seems actually to have appeared by November 1819. A New York edition appeared in 1820, and a French translation in 1821. During this decade RMR and her husband were losing money hand...

Dr Henchman argued that the other side's multiplication of the main issue into innumerable subsidiary points, each requiring many witnesses, ensured the case such longevity that the youngest man here will never live to see...

Meanwhile Estrild, who is not yet of age, has come under the guardianship of Mr Vicat, her uncle. Vicat plans to marry Estrild, for her wealth, to his sickly son Gilbert. At first Estrild resists...

Observations on the Natural Claim of the Mother to the Custody of her Infant Children asserts that all children under seven ought to remain in the care of their mothers, and that for those above...

This was clearly a custody struggle. The family of the countess's first husband had had the children of that marriage made wards in Chancery . Anna was fourteen at this time; their stepfather had at...

Peter Ogilvie is, so far as he knows, the heir to his parents' fortune, and Jane Erskine is a ward of Chancery who will not come into her own money until the age of twenty-five...

Issues of money were crucial to the break-up of EJ 's marriage. She describes her husband as miserly, and as frequently leaving his wife and children without means of support while the couple remained technically...

Her mother, born Theodora Caldicott Ingram , came from a family of Methodists and was seven years older than her husband. Though Theodora's father's name was Ingram, the name Caldicott lingered in the family as...