Frances Eleanor Trollope

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FET wrote upwards of fourteen Victorian novels as well as contributing to many periodicals. Much of her fiction is peopled by eccentric cosmopolitan Londoners, Italian and French visitors, and motherless, bright, and educated young women trying to carve out niches for themselves within the boundaries of the middle and upper-middle classes, with varying degrees of success. Her periodical submissions are predominantly travel writings which showcase her sustained interest in the art, culture, and history of Italy. She also translated plays and travel books from Italian and German, with her husband, Thomas Adolphus Trollope , serving as editor.

Milestones

August 1835
FET was born aboard a paddle steamer in Delaware Bay, USA; she was the eldest of a family of four, of whom three girls survived.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Ellen Lawless Ternan
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Frances Eleanor Jarman
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press, 1945.
234
By 25 August 1866
As A New Writer, Frances Eleanor Ternan (who became FET in October that year) published Aunt Margaret's Trouble, her first novel, and the only one not to bear her name.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2026 (1866): 234
Terry, Reginald Charles, editor. Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope. Oxford University Press, 1999.
548
1895
FET published her last work, a biography of her mother-in-law, Frances Trollope : Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria.
Terry, Reginald Charles, editor. Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope. Oxford University Press, 1999.
548
14 August 1913
FET died, aged nearly eighty, at Southsea near Portsmouth, where she had been living with her sister Ellen .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Ellen Lawless Ternan
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

Biography

Birth and Family

August 1835
FET was born aboard a paddle steamer in Delaware Bay, USA; she was the eldest of a family of four, of whom three girls survived.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Ellen Lawless Ternan
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
under Frances Eleanor Jarman
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press, 1945.
234

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