The Lottery of Marriage is an 1849 novel by the British writer Frances Milton Trollope.Ayres p.184 It was published in three volumes by Henry Colburn of London. Written in the tradition of the silver fork novel, it largely takes place in Dover on the coast of Kent. It contains elements of social satire as it depicts the progress of two different young woman entering the marriage market.Morse, Markwick & Turner p.217
Synopsis The sheltered Fanny Thornton seeks marriage for security and protection while her more independent and worldly Cassandra de Laurie marries for the status that the match can bring.
References
Bibliography Ayres, Brenda (ed.) Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change. Bloomsbury Academic, 2002. Morse, Deborah Denenholz, Markwick, Margaret & Turner, Mark W. (ed.)The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope. Taylor & Francis, 206. Wagner, Tamara. Frances Trollope: Beyond “Domestic Manners”. Routledge, 2013.