# Castle Richmond > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Castle_Richmond > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Castle_Richmond.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Richmond > Source revision: 1333015095 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1860 novel by Anthony Trollope Castle Richmond First edition title page Author Anthony Trollope Language English Publisher Chapman and Hall Publication date 10 May 1860 Publication place England Media type Print Preceded by The Bertrams Followed by Framley Parsonage ***Castle Richmond*** is the third of five novels set in Ireland by [Anthony Trollope](/source/Anthony_Trollope). *Castle Richmond* was written between 4 August 1859 and 31 March 1860, and was published in three volumes on 10 May 1860.[1] It was his tenth novel. Trollope signed the contract for the novel on 2 August 1859. He received £600, £200 more than the payment for his previous novel, *The Bertrams*, reflecting his growing popular success.[2] *Castle Richmond* is set in southwestern Ireland at the beginning of the [Irish famine](/source/Great_Famine_(Ireland)). Castle Richmond is situated on the banks of the [Blackwater River](/source/Blackwater_River_(Kerry)) in [County Cork](/source/County_Cork).[3] Trollope's work in Ireland from 1841 to 1859 had given him an extensive knowledge of the island, and Richard Mullen has written that "[A]ll the principal strands of his life were formed in Ireland".[4] ## Plot The plot, unusually complicated among Trollope's novels, features the competition of two [Protestant](/source/Protestant) cousins of English origin, Owen Fitzgerald and Herbert Fitzgerald, for the hand of Clara Desmond, the noble but impoverished daughter of the widowed Countess of Desmond, providing the novel's principal dramatic interest. *Castle Richmond* was the first of several novels by Trollope in which [bigamy](/source/Bigamy) played an important role. The [Irish famine](/source/Great_Famine_(Ireland)) and efforts by authorities to mitigate its effects are the subject of many scenes and the object of abundant commentary throughout. The famine also occasions more explicit religious commentary than is typical in novels by Trollope. ## Reception The critical reception to the novel was limited but generally favourable. However, *Castle Richmond* did not sell particularly well.[5] ## Sources 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Richard Mullen with James Munson, *The Penguin Companion to Trollope* (London: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 62. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Richard Mullen with James Munson, *The Penguin Companion to Trollope* (London: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 63. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Anthony Trollope, *Castle Richmond* (New York: Dover Publications, 1984), p. 2. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Richard Mullen with James Munson, *The Penguin Companion to Trollope* (London: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 233. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Richard Mullen with James Munson, *The Penguin Companion to Trollope* (London: Penguin Books, 1996), p. 67. ## External links - [Anthony Trollope](https://web.archive.org/web/20160129171822/http://www.anthonytrollope.com/) – Comprehensive summaries of all of Trollope's plots and characters as well as information on all things Trollopian. - *[Castle Richmond](https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/5897)* at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) - [*Castle Richmond*](https://librivox.org/search?title=Castle+Richmond&author=Trollope&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced) public domain audiobook at [LibriVox](/source/LibriVox) v t e Works by Anthony Trollope Novels The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848) La Vendée: An Historical Romance (1850) The Three Clerks (1858) The Bertrams (1859) Castle Richmond (1860) Orley Farm (1862) The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson (1862) Rachel Ray (1863) Miss Mackenzie (1865) The Belton Estate (1866) The Claverings (1867) Nina Balatka (1867) Linda Tressel (1868) He Knew He Was Right (1869) The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870) Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (1871) Ralph the Heir (1871) The Golden Lion of Granpère (1872) Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874) Lady Anna (1874) The Way We Live Now (1875) The American Senator (1877) Is He Popenjoy? (1878) John Caldigate (1879) An Eye for an Eye (1879) Cousin Henry (1879) Ayala's Angel (1881) Doctor Wortle's School (1881) The Fixed Period (1882) Kept in the Dark (1882) Marion Fay (1882) Mr. Scarborough's Family (1883) The Landleaguers (1883) An Old Man's Love (1884) Novel series Chronicles of Barsetshire The Warden (1855) Barchester Towers (1857) Doctor Thorne (1858) Framley Parsonage (1861) The Small House at Allington (1864) The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) Palliser novels Can You Forgive Her? (1865) Phineas Finn (1869) The Eustace Diamonds (1873) Phineas Redux (1874) The Prime Minister (1876) The Duke's Children (1880) Magazines Co-founder, The Fortnightly Review This article about an 1860s novel is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. See guidelines for writing about novels. 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