Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anthony Trollope
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Standard Name: Trollope, Anthony
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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.
GE
's work very early became a byword among Victorian critics for that even then problematic category of realism. According to literary historian Leah Price
, she was the most extensively anthologized novelist among her...
Reception
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane...
Residence
Frances Trollope
Financial difficulties forced FT
and family to rent out their newly built house, Julians, and resign themselves to the small farmhouse on their leased land in Harrow; their new home was the basis...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Passages in The Lover's Companion are grouped according to different kinds of love situation (first love, love at first sight, unrequited love, etc.). Authors used include Jane Austen
, Anthony Trollope
, Oscar Wilde
,...
Textual Features
Frances Trollope
The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...
Textual Features
Ella D'Arcy
The marriage here seems quite stable. John Corbett lives comfortably with his wife Minnie and her sister Letty in a large, ostentatious, inefficient Twickenham villa, but the women's lack of education has left them empty-minded...
Textual Features
Ella D'Arcy
Oddly, D'Arcy chooses old-fashioned symbolic names for her two main male characters: more like an Anthony Trollope
novel than one of the 1890s. Bishop Wise is unwise and the priest Herbert Fayler is a failure...
Textual Features
Harriet Martineau
Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead...
Textual Features
Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant develops an extended critique of her chief bugbears, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(the leader of her school
), Rhoda Broughton
(not by name, but as author of Cometh Up As a Flower),...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Strutt
Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES
gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly...
Textual Features
Annie S. Swan
The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan
and...
JT
donated her literary archive (notes, book manuscripts, journals, correspondence, and recordings) to the Bodleian Library
at Oxford (which also holds the manuscripts of her forebear Anthony Trollope
).
Priestman, Judith. “Joanna Trollope leaves her literary archive to the Bodleian”. Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter.
Textual Production
Pamela Hansford Johnson
PHJ
wrote introductions for the Norton
edition of Trollope
's Barchester Towers, 1962, and for Cecil Woolf
's and Brocard Sewell
's volume of essays entitled Corvo
, 1860-1960, 1961. She contributed in...
