Anthony Trollope

24 April 1815 - 06 December 1882

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.

Milestones

24 April 1815

AT , novelist, was born at 16 Keppel Street, Russell Square, London.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

March 1847

AT 's first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, was published through Thomas Cautley Newby .

Tingay, Lance O. “The Reception of Trollope’s First Novel”. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol.

, No. 3, pp. 195-00.

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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

By late March 1857

AT remained with the publisher Longman for this second novel in Chronicles of Barsetshire, titled Barchester Towers from the cathedral.

Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.

The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.

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6 December 1882

AT died at 34 Welbeck Street, London owing to complications of a stroke a few days earlier.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

Birth and Family

24 April 1815

AT , novelist, was born at 16 Keppel Street, Russell Square, London.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.