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.
In his autobiography, Anthony
describes the attempts to save their possessions on the day they were being carried away. He says it was a scene of devastation . . . which still was not without...
Publishing
Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET
's novel The Sacristan's Household ran monthly in the new periodical Saint Pauls (edited by her brother-in-law Anthony Trollope
).
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
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Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Trollope
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 ....
Education
Frances Eleanor Trollope
Their mother educated the sisters.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
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...
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...
Occupation
Frances Eleanor Trollope
Dickens
, by now a long-standing friend of the Ternans, introduced FET
to the Trollopes; she had admired Theodosia Trollope, Bice's mother, for her talents in music and poetry. She was also extremely fond
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press.
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Textual Production
Joanna Trollope
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.
Occupation
Frances Eleanor Trollope
It has also been suggested that the couple urged FET
to take the position for reasons quite unrelated to London gossip: Anthony
and Rose
. . . were convinced that her clever talk was exactly...
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
no doubt referring to her mother-in-law Frances Trollope
, and the latter's son, Anthony Trollope
.
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. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
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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...
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...
