‘He reflected, and not for the first time, that it was a great pity he suffered from a middle-class male reluctance to thump his wife’: Backlash, misogyny, and the consequences of self-fulfilment in the fiction of Joanna Trollope … Originally posted here: ‘He reflected, and not for the first time, that it was a great pity he suffered from a middle-class male reluctance to thump his wife’: Backlash, misogyny, and the consequences of self-fulfilment in the fiction of Joanna Trollope