In Miss Mackenzie Trollope made a deliberate attempt 'to prove that a novel may be produced without any love, but as he candidly admits in his Autobiography, the attempt \"breaks down before the conclusion.\" In taking for his heroine a middle-aged spinster, Trollope chose to go against the custom followed by himself and his contemporaries of writing about young girls in love. | Miss MacKenzie by Anthony Trollope, Paperback | Indigo Chapters