The Victorian woman suffered a number of disadvantages that no longer apply to today's woman, and Trollope explored these features of the world of his day, illustrating them so that today's reader cries out at such injustices. Trollope himself never acknowledged any sympathy for the feminist movement, and indeed he sometimes parodied some of its more ardent advocates, but a number of his works can be read as feminist texts for exposing the problems that women faced. Lady Laura Standish, in _Phineas Finn_, refuses Phineas's gallant offer of marriage, even though she loves him, because neither of them has enough money to support his political ambitions. However, she devotes herself to furthering his political career, hoping to use him as a mouthpiece for her own political interests. Caroline Waddington in _The Bertrams_ suffers the powerless state of a married woman before the appearance in England of rather modest reforms. Trollope's insight and skill in presenting women was such that the faithful reader is tempted to sort them into bins--not an unfair analysis of a writer who was so workmanlike in his approach to his craft that he wrote regularly and prolifically. Some of his women appear as rather one-dimensional role players, even though they may be designated as "heroines"; others are developed in such depth that the reader feels that he knows them as long-time friends. Individuals, even fictional creations, defy classification, but the all-too-conscientious reader cannot resist creating a few tentative file folders: The Faithful Woman, exemplified by Lily Dale, has already been mentioned. There are a few Women Who Can't Make Up Their Mind, among whom Alice Vavasor of _Can You Forgive Her?_ is the prototype. Others include Lady Clara Desmond in _Castle Richmond_ and Clara Amedroz of _The Belton Estate_. The Husband Hunter (one is tempted to refer to her as the Gold Digger) is the woman who sets out to marry well; Arabella Trefoil of _The American Senator_ stands out among these. Another is Lizzie Greystock of _The Eustace Diamonds_, who does not become Lady Eustace for love of the sickly Florian Eustace. The Senior Dowager is well represented by Lady Lufton, who stands down the elderly Duke of Omnium in _Framley Parsonage_. These are some of the most entertaining of the women, who also include Lady Aylmer in _The Belton Estate_. A somewhat younger variant is the Woman of Independent Means. Miss Martha Dunstable is undaunted by the Archbishop's wife in _Barchester Towers_, gently declines the proposal of Frank Gresham in _Dr. Thorne_, and eventually marries Dr. Thorne in _Framley Parsonage_. Others are Miss Todd of _The Bertrams_ and the eponymous Miss Mackenzie.