Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anthony Trollope
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Standard Name: Trollope, Anthony
AT
was a popular and exceptionally productive Victorian novelist. Priding himself particularly on the creation of individual characters, he also captures the workings of social institutions like the Church, marriage, parliamentary politics, and the exercise of power in families. As well as his forty-seven novels he is remembered for short fiction, travel books, journalism of various kinds, and an autobiography. He initiated the practice of a series of novels, each self-contained but linked together by shared characters or settings.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
FET
had a wonderful singing voice. Later in her life, with the financial assistance of Charles Dickens
and Anthony Trollope
, she travelled to Florence to study singing; her mother...
Education
Anna Steele
AS
does not seem to have had any formal education. If her upbringing was like that of her younger sister Katherine, she never attended school, and it is unclear whether she or her sisters had...
Following his death Charles Collins
(Wilkie
's brother), with his wife (the former Kate Dickens
) and family, were the main sources of support for ATR
and her sister. Between 1,500 and 2,000 mourners...
Family and Intimate relationships
Joanna Trollope
The novelists Frances Trollope
and her far more famous son Anthony Trollope
were collateral but not direct ancestors of JT
. She has praised them both warmly in print, perhaps more for their personal qualities...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
In the eight years following her marriage, FT
had seven children. One died in infancy and another at a young age. In fact, only her eldest and youngest sons, Thomas Adolphus
and Anthony
, survived...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
Her husband's presence disrupted their domestic harmony.
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. What I Remember. Harper and Brothers, 1888.
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Thomas Anthony Trollope
was not a violent or vicious man, but despite his affection for his family, his bad temper and melancholy ensured that [n]o one of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
Novelist Anthony Trollope
was FT
's youngest son. Through correspondence, and travelling and living together, they maintained a close friendship throughout their lives. His portrait of FT's character in his autobiography paints her as neither...
Fictionalization
Hannah More
The death of such a revered character produced an instant backlash. Thomas de Quincey
(who had visited HM
unwillingly as a young man) attacked both her literary works and her character in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine...
Fictionalization
Margaret Oliphant
It is almost impossible to calculate MO
's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the...
Friends, Associates
Frances Eleanor Trollope
In addition to her supportive professional relationship with her husband, FET
was also close to other writers such as Charles Dickens
, her brother-in-law Anthony Trollope
, her mother-in-law Frances Trollope
, and George Eliot
Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP...
Friends, Associates
Emma Caroline Wood
Visitors to Rivenhall included Edwin Landseer
, Anthony Trollope
and George Meredith
. Frequent visits of guests, coupled with the fact that the entire family was expected to participate actively in social life, gave the...
Friends, Associates
Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP
knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays
, Harriet Martineau
, Anthony Trollope
,...
Timeline
April 1817
The first issue of Blackwood's EdinburghMagazine appeared; founder William Blackwood
intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
1856
Under the direction of Sir Rowland Hill
, London was divided into twelve postal districts, named after the points of the compass (SW, W, NW, etc.) with two central districts: WC and EC.
“London’s Postcodes (ZIP Codes)”. LondonTown.
7 February 1865
The first issue appeared of George Smith
's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.
October 1867
The first issue of Saint Pauls was published by James Sprent Virtue
; editor Anthony Trollope
created a shilling periodical featuring serials, reviews, and political discussion.
By Christmas 1869
Francis Galton
, mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,
March 1874
The final issue of Saint Paul's was published.
12 April 1877
The Transvaal in South Africa was annexed for the UK when Sir Theophilus Shepstone
marched into it with twenty-five policemen and a Union Jack,
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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as Anthony Trollope
put it.
April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Texts
Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. William Blackwood and Sons, 1883.
Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Harper and Brothers, 1883.
Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Oxford University Press, 1961.
