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.

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Literary responses Barbara Pym
BP 's father wrote to her on 3 May 1950 commending this novel, which he had not expected to enjoy since he preferred mysteries.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press.
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Robert Liddell , who had been familiar with it throughout...
Friends, Associates Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP knew personally and corresponded with many of the Victorian intelligentsia. In addition to her Langham Place associates already mentioned, her literary friends and acquaintances included Matilda Hays , Harriet Martineau , Anthony Trollope ,...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Oliphant
Carlingford was the first English setting in MO 's fiction, apart from London. In inventing it she was following the precedent of Trollope 's Barsetshire.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press.
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In The Rector the protagonist comes to Carlingford from...
Fictionalization Margaret Oliphant
It is almost impossible to calculate MO 's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the...
Textual Production Margaret Oliphant
MO published Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford, whose title alludes to Anthony Trollope 's Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867.
“Palmer’s Index to the Times”. Historical Newspapers Online.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2539 (1876): 851
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant develops an extended critique of her chief bugbears, Mary Elizabeth Braddon (the leader of her school
Oliphant, Margaret. “Novels”. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol.
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, W. Blackwood, pp. 257-80.
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), Rhoda Broughton (not by name, but as author of Cometh Up As a Flower),...
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...
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...
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.
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Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
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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.
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One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as...
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 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...
Textual Production Geraldine Jewsbury
While working for the Athenæum, she reviewed works by literary figures including Mary Russell Mitford , Elizabeth Gaskell , Harriet Beecher Stowe , Camilla Crosland , Anthony Trollope , George Eliot , Julia Kavanagh
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
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.
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She was particular about the construction of...

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