Miss Mackenzie - World's classics Author:Anthony Trollope, A. O. J. Cockshut 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 wri... more »ting about young girls in love.« less