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.
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...
Author summary
Elizabeth Strutt
As a novelist and travel-writer and in one book of at least semi-feminist debate, ES
seems to be addressing women; but when she writes on religion she takes men as her subject. With only one...
Textual Features
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...
Textual Features
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...
Textual Production
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...
Textual Production
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.
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...
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 ....
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 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
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...
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.
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
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...
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
.
