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.
Heineman
suggests that FT
's interest in women's characters and position greatly influenced her son's writing: Alone among the great male writers of his century, Anthony
produced vibrant, robust, and complex female characters ....
Intertextuality and Influence
Ruth Rendell
Wexford's relationships with his wife and younger daughter are contrasted with the relationships of people he investigates in connection with the murder. His wife also gains Wexford's admiration when she contrives to make him jealous...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Eleanor Trollope
After her marriage to Thomas Adolphus Trollope
, FET
was quickly adopted into the Trollope family not only as his wife, but also as a fellow writer. Though she had begun her relationship with Thomas...
Intertextuality and Influence
Margaret Oliphant
Carlingford was the first English setting in MO
's fiction, apart from London. In inventing it she was following the precedent of Trollope
's Barsetshire.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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In The Rector the protagonist comes to Carlingford from...
Intertextuality and Influence
John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Sarah Hoey
Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...
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
,...
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...
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
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
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...