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.
CADS
published the final novel in her feminist Some Wives trilogy, Mrs. Noakes, An Ordinary Woman.
The protagonist's name reflects the use (in legal texts, as well as by such writers as Robert Browning
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George Henry Lewes
GHL
allowed himself to be persuaded by Anthony Trollope
(who was involved in setting up the new periodical) to act as editor of the Fortnightly Review, despite his bad health.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
2: 174-5, 184
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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Edith J. Simcox
It is not known when EJS
began writing. She produced a review of Anthony Trollope
's He Knew He Was Right in early 1869, but it was never published.
McKenzie, Keith Alexander, and Gordon S. Haight. Edith Simcox and George Eliot. Oxford University Press.
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Margaret Oliphant
MO
published Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford, whose title alludes to Anthony Trollope
's Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867.
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2539 (1876): 851
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Antonia Fraser
AF
supplied introductions for The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, April 1975 (by various hands), the Trollope Society
's edition of Anthony Trollope
's Framley Parsonage, 1996, and the Folio Society
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Illustrated by George du Maurier
, this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope
and Thackeray
, and shared the lead with Collins
's Armadale. EG
received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's...
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Isa Blagden
Smith, Elder and Co.
of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope
helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning
may have similarly persuaded publishers to...
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Angela Thirkell
In a whole series of comic novels set in Barsetshire, AT
deliberately recreated an Anthony-Trollope
-like, present-day yet almost period world of the country gentry and the cathedral close. She called herself a sardonic...
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Elizabeth Bowen
EB
published a slim pamphlet in dialogue form entitled Anthony Trollope
: A New Judgement.
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Angela Thirkell
She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen
's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray
's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope
's Barchester Towers, 1958.
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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
,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
