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
Textual Production
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...
Publishing
Dora Greenwell
In 1871 DG
published in Saint Pauls (a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope
for several years from October 1867) a translation of the medieval French Song of Roland (previously translated by Anne Marsh
). That...
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...
Textual Features
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
,...
GJ
warned her readers against sensational novels and the taste for foolish, easy entertainment, that requires no effort of mind, [and] deteriorates . . . moral strength.
Fryckstedt, Monica Correa. Geraldine Jewsbury’s Athenaeum Reviews: A Mirror of Mid-Victorian Attitudes to Fiction. S. Academiae Ubsaliensis.
74
She was particular about the construction of...
Textual Production
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Q. D. Leavis
Here and elsewhere she published on a wide range of authors and literary topics, including Trollope
, Hardy
, Gissing
, Forster
, Orwell
, and Aldous Huxley
; the Anglo-Irish, American, French, Italian, and...
Textual Production
Q. D. Leavis
Here QDL
highlights Oliphant's anti-sentimental, critical view of Victorian county town insitutions and relations, and the comparatively independent, ironic attitude of the unstereotypical heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks (large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to men and with...
Textual Production
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.
224-5
Author summary
George Henry Lewes
At GHL
's death in 1878, Anthony Trollope
praised him as journalist, editor, critic, philosophical populariser, biographer, and scientific writer.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
279
One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as...
Textual Features
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...
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...
