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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Joanna Trollope | JT
's introduction to an edition of her ancestor Anthony Trollope
's autobiography, 1987 (reproduced in condensed form on her website), remarks that Frances Trollopein the end saved the family finances by her own... |
Literary responses | Frances Eleanor Trollope | The Athenæum lauded FET
's family knack of investing commonplace life with dramatic interest, Athenæum. J. Lection. 2514 (1876): 18 |
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 Production | Frances Eleanor Trollope | At this time Saint Paul's was still being edited by FET
's brother-in-law, Anthony Trollope
. Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. |
Travel | Frances Trollope | |
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... |
politics | Frances Trollope | Mary Russell Mitford
later recalled that FTused to be such a Radical that her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals. I remember asking her at one of her parties... |
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. 40-2 |
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... |
Wealth and Poverty | Frances Trollope | At first, the family visited the farmhouse during summers, only moving permanently to Harrow in about 1815 when they desired more room than their residence in London provided. Concern for FT
's health, given her... |
Leisure and Society | Queen Victoria | Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985. 116 |
Reception | Lucy Walford |
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