Back to Trollope - and the literary lineage of Trollope characters

After my rant against Trollope yesterday I did decide to plunge in again - I'd thought about returning to some short stories but really do feel I'd rather be reading something long and engaging, just not sure what - and did enjoy last night's reading more so than the previous night's - shows how mood and utter exhaustion can affect our perceptions of beauty and style. No doubt reading Trollope requires a great deal of suspension - not of disbelief but of self-possession, you have to realize you're engaged in a very long process that will carry you through the next days and weeks of reading - an ocean voyage rather than a jet flight. There'll be plenty of longeurous (?)  passages, just filling us in on the gossip of the insular communities of Barchester and Dorset (?) and you have to sit back and let it soak in - these novels are not action packed or even incident packed, as Dickens can be, but they are well populated and, as in life, we get to know the characters slowly and over time. The two main characters, at least based on the first 5 or 6 chapters of the novel, are not the eponymous Dr. Thorne but Thorne's niece, whom he is raising, Mary, and Frank Gresham, the son of the local squire now just "coming into his manhood." Miss Thorne is from a lineage of British lit characters - motherless young women who, perhaps unrestrained (or untutored) by a mother can be a little more sharp-tongued and forceful than their more demure peers: Emma, for one, and most certainly Beatrice would be her literary forebears. It seems that she's destined for some kind of relationship w/ Frank Gresham, and they're so opposite: she's scorned by many others in her society because of her background - a child born out of wedlock, with no rank or station - and he's respected by all primarily because he's from a titled family - though not a wealthy family (the title is from his snobbish mother, a de Courcy; his father has squandered the family fortune in several ill-advised runs for office, urged on by his wife - as in so many British works what he considers to be poverty is far, far from what poverty truly was - and is - in England or elsewhere), and in fact as we see from the dinner scene, in which Frank is welcomed to his manhood - I guess that means he's turning 21? - he is a complete bumbler when it comes to speech-making. He's studying at Cambridge, but it seems clear that in those days getting into Cambridge was a matter of being born into the right family. How will these 2 get together, and get along?