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.
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.
I
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...
Travel
Frances Trollope
FT
travelled to Mallow in Ireland to visit her son Anthony
and her daughter-in-law Rose
.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press.
II: 153
politics
Frances Trollope
Mary Russell Mitford
later recalled that FTused to be such a Radical that her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals. I remember asking her at one of her parties...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
In the eight years following her marriage, FT
had seven children. One died in infancy and another at a young age. In fact, only her eldest and youngest sons, Thomas Adolphus
and Anthony
, survived...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
Her husband's presence disrupted their domestic harmony.
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. What I Remember. Harper and Brothers.
40-2
Thomas Anthony Trollope
was not a violent or vicious man, but despite his affection for his family, his bad temper and melancholy ensured that [n]o one of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
Novelist Anthony Trollope
was FT
's youngest son. Through correspondence, and travelling and living together, they maintained a close friendship throughout their lives. His portrait of FT's character in his autobiography paints her as neither...
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Trollope
At first, the family visited the farmhouse during summers, only moving permanently to Harrow in about 1815 when they desired more room than their residence in London provided. Concern for FT
's health, given her...
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Trollope
Her husband and son Anthony
, who was a day student, moved into a two-room farmhouse almost three miles from Harrow at Harrow Weald. Anthony remembers it as a gloomy, unhappy time, not only...
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Trollope
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.
In 1887 Coventry Patmore
said of LW
that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens
, Thackeray
, Trollope
, Eliot
, and Gaskell
, declaring her work to be equalled only...
