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, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
Button, Marilyn D. “Reclaiming Mrs. Frances Trollope: British Abolitionist and Feminist”. College Language Association Journal, Vol.
28
, No. 1, Sept. 1994, pp. 69-86.
69
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research, 1983.
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
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.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. The Budget of the Bubble Family. Edward Bull, 1840, 3 vols.
vi
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, 1990.
In a preface Rosina Bulwer comments on her publishing difficulties: as usual...
Friends, Associates Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton
His international travel and family ties to England's literary scene ensured him a wide social circle. He knew Charles Dickens , John Forster , and Frances Mary Peard . While living in Florence, he became...
Reception Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
When Thackeray published his Paris Sketch-Book in 1840, he self-consciously distanced himself from what he called the tea-party prattle of Morgan and Frances Trollope (in Paris and the Parisians, 1836).
Jay, Elisabeth. “British Writers and Paris, 1840-1871: a research project in outline”. English Now: Selected Papers from the 20th IAUPE Conference in Lund 2007, edited by Marianne Thormählen, Lund University, 2008, pp. 110-17.
111
Literary responses Sydney Owenson Lady Morgan
Thackeray (associating Morgan in his comments with Frances Trollope ) said the cultural judgements in this book were based on nothing but tea-table gossip.
McMaster, Rowland D. Thackeray’s Cultural Frame of Reference: Allusion in The Newcomes. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
124
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Isabella Bird
She used her royalties to buy boats for impoverished Scottish fishermen.
Kaye, Evelyn. Amazing Traveler, Isabella Bird: The Biography of a Victorian Adventurer. Blue Penguin Publications, 1994.
29-30
There were literary precedents for the kind of book IB created on her return to England. Frances Trollope had published in 1832 her...
death Isa Blagden
Her grave is near those of her friends Elizabeth Barrett Browning , Theodosia Trollope and Frances Trollope ).
Material Conditions of Writing Mary Angela Dickens
The journal All the Year Round, founded by MAD 's grandfather and then edited by her father, was one of the first and most significant platforms for her short stories and serialized novels. Other...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Gaskell
EG wrote Mary Barton following the death of her ten-month-old son in 1845. Johann Ludwig Uhland 's Auf der Überfahrt, from which she takes one of her epigraphs, refers to two from the spirit-land...
Literary responses Elizabeth Gaskell
Most reviews of North and South were positive, athough some criticized EG for what they saw as inaccuracies in her portrayal of northern industrial life. Chorley in the Athenæum called this one of the best...
Friends, Associates Matilda Charlotte Houstoun
In later years MCH continued to maintain relations with several significant literary figures. She was once visited by Frances Trollope , whom she described as A genial, natural woman, not especially refined, but far too...
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, 1883, 2 vols.
I: prelims; II: prelims
Literary responses Catherine Hubback
She is discussed as one of a group of British women who travelled or settled in the USA (along with Fanny Kemble , Frances Trollope , Harriet Martineau , Isabella Bird , and the diarist...
Friends, Associates Eliza Lynn Linton
Eliza Lynn met a number of women authors who were once applauded but later complacently forgotten . . . . as literary fossils.
Linton, Eliza Lynn, and Beatrice Harraden. My Literary Life. Hodder and Stoughton, 1899.
85
She contended that Women who wrote were then few and far...

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.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871

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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
983 (1846): 885-6
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

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.
Porter, Katherine H. Through a Glass Darkly: Spiritualism in the Browning Circle. Octagon, 1972.
3-4, 115

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,
Saturday Review. Chawton.
28.739 (25 December 1869): 832-3

Texts

Trollope, Frances. A Visit to Italy. Richard Bentley, 1842, 2 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. John Murray, 1834, 2 vols.
Trollope, Frances et al. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Whittaker, Treacher, 1832, 2 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Editor Larson, John Lauritz, Abridged, Brandywine Press, 1993.
Trollope, Frances. Fashionable Life; or, Paris and London. Hurst and Blackett, 1856, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Henry Colburn, 1847, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Garland, 1975.
Trollope, Frances. Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion. Henry Colburn, 1843, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Jessie Phillips. Henry Colburn, 1843, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Jessie Phillips. Henry Colburn, 1844.
Trollope, Frances. Mrs. Mathews; or, Family Mysteries. Colburn, 1851, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. One Fault. Richard Bentley, 1840, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Richard Bentley, 1836, 2 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Abbess. Whittaker, Treacher, 1833, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Attractive Man. Henry Colburn, 1846, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Blue Belles of England. Saunders and Otley, 1842, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Laurringtons; or, Superior People. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. Hurst and Blackett, 1854, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw. Richard Bentley , 1836, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong the Factory Boy. Henry Colburn, 1840, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy. Frank Cass, 1968.
Trollope, Frances. The Lottery of Marriage. Henry Colburn, 1849, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Refugee in America. Whittaker, Treacher, 1832, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Vicar of Wrexhill. Richard Bentley, 1837, 3 vols.
Trollope, Frances. The Widow Barnaby. R. Bentley, 1839, 3 vols.