CHAPTER XII

RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY AND OPINIONS

Anglican orthodoxy and evangelical antipathies imbibed by Trollope in childhood--His personal objections to the Low Church Party for theological as well as social reasons--His characteristic revenge on Norman Macleod for extorting from him a _Good Words_ novel--_Rachel Ray_ a case of “vous l’avez voulu, George Dandin”--And instead of a story for evangelical readers a spun-out satire on evangelicalism--Its plot, characters, and incidents--_Nina Balatka_ regarded as a problem Jew story--_Linda Tressel_ to Bavarian Puritanism much as _Rachel Ray_ to English--_Miss Mackenzie_ another hit at the Low Church--Its characters and plot--_The Last Chronicle of Barset_ and _The Vicar of Bullhampton_--Their serious elements, as well as social photographs and occasional touches of satire against women, ever doing second thing before first and then doing the first wrong--Both novels illustrate Trollope’s views of the tragic volcano ever ready to break out from under the social crust 223