He knew He was right

He knew He was right is a historical novel written by Anthony Trollope in 1869.

The story follows a young marriage that begins to fracture when a husband’s suspicion of his wife’s acquaintance hardens into certainty. What starts as a private doubt becomes a corrosive obsession that tests trust, dignity, and common sense.

As pride and jealousy feed on social gossip and legal constraints, the couple are drawn into lawyers’ offices and relatives’ parlors, where every gesture is scrutinized. Trollope crafts a precise study of how fixed ideas can unmake a family, exposing the cost of defending “honor” at the expense of compassion and reason.

By the end, the novel stands as a landmark in psychological realism, revealing how a single wrong conviction can spiral into tragedy. Trollope’s patient storytelling invites readers to weigh love, duty, and public opinion—and to see how stubborn certainty can destroy what it claims to protect.

"When Louis Trevelyan was twenty-four years old, he had all the world before him where to choose; and, among other things, he chose to go to the Mandarin Islands, and there fell in love with Emily Rowley, the daughter of Sir Marmaduke, the governor."

This book is illustrated with original drawings.