Rachel Ray

Excerpt from Rachel Ray
In 1863 Trollope was invited by the well-known Dr. Norman Macleod, the editor of "Good Words," to write a story for that magazine. Trollope endeavoured to excuse himself on the ground that a novel from his pen would be unsuitable for those staid and decorous pages, but eventually complied with Dr. Macleod's insistence by sending him "Rachel Ray." It was returned to him with the intimation that "it would not do." Trollope has told us that he supposes it was his praise of dancing as a healthful and innocent amusement that rendered his tale unacceptable to the theologian-editor, but the fact is that "Rachel Ray" is a vehicle, not, indeed, for the expression of the novelist's religious opinions, but rather for that of his feelings towards those religious opinions with which he did not happen to agree.
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