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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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Rebecca West
This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.
British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 739
RW considers Shakespeare , Henry Fielding (Tom...
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
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...
Wealth and Poverty Ellen Wood
Her estate was valued at £36,393, 13s. 3d., a substantial amount for any writer of the period (and considerably more than contemporaries such as Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollope ).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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