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If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

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Jane Smiley
Age: 76
Born: 1949
Born: January 1
Journalist
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Jane Graves Smiley
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