These stories by Anthony Trollope have never before been collected in this form. The text, edited by Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman for Rushwater Press, is published here under the title Romantic Interludes: Tales of Love and Marriage.
"The Lady of Launay" was first published in serial form in Light, a short-lived periodical, in the spring of 1878.
"The Courtship of Susan Bell" first appeared in print in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in August 1860.
"The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne" was first published in The London Review in March 1861.
"Malachi's Cove" originally appeared in the periodical Good Words in December 1864.
"Miss Ophelia Gledd" first appeared as part of a book, A Welcome: Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose, an 1863 collection of original works by prominent literary figures.
"The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo" was first printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine in May 1860.
