Frances Trollope

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Standard Name: Trollope, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Milton
Nickname: Fanny
Married Name: Frances Trollope
Frances Trollope is best known for her novels and travel writing about early nineteenth-century America. She was also known for her outspoken social reform novels, and for her depictions of independent, intelligent, vulgar and manipulative women—often unmarried or widowed—who scheme intellectually-inferior men out of money and into marriage. FT was herself known as blunt, intelligent, and witty; her writing reflects these traits, her Tory politics, and her advocacy for slaves, women, and the poor. She often introduced current witticisms and colloquialisms into her prose. Although she began writing only in her early fifties, she published thirty-four novels, six travel books, two long narrative poems, several verse dramas, scripts for home theatricals and many periodical contributions over a span of thirty years.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
Button, Marilyn D. “Reclaiming Mrs. Frances Trollope: British Abolitionist and Feminist”. College Language Association Journal, Vol.
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, No. 1, pp. 69-86.
69
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research.
21: 321-2
Photograph of a painting of Frances Trollope by Auguste Hervieu, c. 1832, seated in a red upholstered chair, against a dark background. She is wearing a dark red-brown dress with blue and gold cuffs, a blue and gold buckle on the waistband, and large lace collar matching the bonnet that covers her dark, smooth, middle-parted hair. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Mary Russell Mitford
The prime movers of this achievement were Henry F. Chorley (who later edited her letters) and the Rev. William Harness ; the name of Queen Victoria headed the list of subscribers.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
Pigrome, Stella. “Mary Russell Mitford”. The Charles Lamb Bulletin, Vol.
66
, Charles Lamb Society, pp. 53-62.
54
It...
Travel Mary Russell Mitford
MRM made a trip to Bath, during which she met Frances Trollope and Walter Savage Landor .
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 268
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 195
Travel Mary Russell Mitford
Scholar Katie Halsey notes that she positioned herself at the heart of a network of literary people, both male and female, and dedicated much of her time to forming and keeping up literary friendships.
Halsey, Katie. “Tell Me of some Booklings: Mary Russell Mitford’s Female Literary Networks”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
18
, No. 1, pp. 121-36.
122
Travel Frances Wright
FW and Frances Trollope sailed from England for America, heading for Wright's colony of Nashoba.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
155
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
198
FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Joanna Trollope
JT 's introduction to an edition of her ancestor Anthony Trollope 's autobiography, 1987 (reproduced in condensed form on her website), remarks that Frances Trollopein the end saved the family finances by her own...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
The work contains reminiscences of MCH 's friends and acquaintances. Among them were John Wilson Croker , the Norton family, William Wordsworth , Fanny Trollope , the younger Alexandre Dumas , and the daughter of Caroline Clive .
Houstoun, Matilda Charlotte. A Woman’s Memories of World-Known Men. F. V. White.
I: prelims; II: prelims
Textual Production Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET published her last work, a biography of her mother-in-law, Frances Trollope : Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria.
Terry, Reginald Charles, editor. Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope. Oxford University Press.
548
Textual Production Elizabeth Gaskell
The idea of self-improvement through writing and reading correlates to the strong emphasis in EG 's fiction on education and the impact of environment. This was undoubtedly influenced by a Unitarian intellectual background indebted to...
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
MRM wrote to Macready in April 1823 about this play, or the idea for it; she was afraid he did not like it. She found the subject in Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the...
Textual Production Julia Pardoe
JP may have borrowed her subtitle from the title of Frances Trollope 's celebrated Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832. Her work was three times reprinted within the next twenty years.
Textual Features Phyllis Bentley
Bentley writes that the regional novel is characterized by detailed faithfulness to reality, a conscientious presentation of phenomena as they really happen in ordinary everyday life on a clearly defined spot of real earth, a...
Textual Features Mary Russell Mitford
MRM has no patience with Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins 's The Countess and Gertrude or with Byron 's Childe Harold.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
1: 133, 152
She despises Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis as a delightful mixture of cant and affectation...
Textual Features Janet Schaw
Her editors call her a forerunner of Frances Trollope in her American critique, though her attitudes are shaped by reactionary political views in a way that Trollope's are not.
Schaw, Janet. Journal of a Lady of Quality. Editors Andrews, Evangeline Walker and Charles McLean Andrews, Yale University Press.
160 note
Her reports are more...
Textual Features Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
It was dedicated to Frances Trollope , with the praise that all admire [her] incorruptible honesty, which in [her] amounts to sublimity.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Budget of the Bubble Family. Edward Bull.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
In a preface Rosina Bulwer comments on her publishing difficulties: as usual...

Timeline

1827: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish...

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1827

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish I Sonetti; the last of them appeared in 1849.

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

6 July 1839: In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat...

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6 July 1839

In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat promoted the stereotype that middle-class Americans adhered to a more strict paradigm of prudishness than their British counterparts, and apparently gave rise to the myth that Victorians...

By 29 August 1846: Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope,...

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By 29 August 1846

Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope , who died two years later, at thirty-one, of tuberculosis) published Chollerton: a tale of our times, as by a Lady.

9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...

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9 April 1855

American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.

By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...

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By Christmas 1869

Francis Galton , mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,

Texts

Trollope, Frances. A Visit to Italy. Richard Bentley, 1842.
Trollope, Frances. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. John Murray, 1834.
Trollope, Frances et al. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Whittaker, Treacher, 1832.
Trollope, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Editor Larson, John Lauritz, Brandywine Press, 1993.
Trollope, Frances. Fashionable Life; or, Paris and London. Hurst and Blackett, 1856.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Henry Colburn, 1847.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Garland, 1975.
Trollope, Frances. Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion. Henry Colburn, 1843.
Trollope, Frances. Jessie Phillips. Henry Colburn, 1843.
Trollope, Frances. Jessie Phillips. Henry Colburn, 1844.
Trollope, Frances. Mrs. Mathews; or, Family Mysteries. Colburn, 1851.
Trollope, Frances. One Fault. Richard Bentley, 1840.
Trollope, Frances. Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Richard Bentley, 1836.
Trollope, Frances. The Abbess. Whittaker, Treacher, 1833.
Trollope, Frances. The Attractive Man. Henry Colburn, 1846.
Trollope, Frances. The Blue Belles of England. Saunders and Otley, 1842.
Trollope, Frances. The Laurringtons; or, Superior People. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. Hurst and Blackett, 1854.
Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw. Richard Bentley , 1836.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong the Factory Boy. Henry Colburn, 1840.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy. Frank Cass, 1968.
Trollope, Frances. The Lottery of Marriage. Henry Colburn, 1849.
Trollope, Frances. The Refugee in America. Whittaker, Treacher, 1832.
Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Vicar of Wrexhill. Richard Bentley, 1837.
Trollope, Frances. The Widow Barnaby. R. Bentley, 1839.