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.
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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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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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
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 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.
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.
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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...
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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...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
