An Eye for An Eye

An Eye for an Eye, being Victorian fiction about a woman who is strongly sexual and until pregnancy apparently unashamed of having a lover and not being married to him, took Trollope nine years to get published. Trollope wrote it from 13 September to 10 October, 1870. It was serialized from 24 August 1878 to 1 February 1879 by the Whitehall Review, and published by Chapman and Hall as a book in January 1879. When it was published it was vitriolically attacked except by those people who saw it is a poetic masterpiece.