Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Frances Eleanor Trollope
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Standard Name: Trollope, Frances Eleanor
Birth Name: Frances Eleanor Ternan
Nickname: Fanny
Married Name: Frances Eleanor Trollope
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.
Frances Milton (later FT
) was born at Stapleton near Bristol.
FT
's daughter-in-law Frances Eleanor Trollope
gave her date of birth as 1780 in her memoir, and was followed by the Dictionary of...
death
Frances Trollope
Her tombstone was engraved with a Latin inscription, which translates in part to: Here lies what was mortal of Frances Trollope—but her special spirit is divine, and her memory seeks no marble monument.
qtd. in
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
255, 297
Family and Intimate relationships
Anthony Trollope
Anthony's older brother, Thomas Adolphus Trollope
, took after both his parents in becoming a barrister and a novelist.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
His books, however, were less well-known than those of his second wife, Frances Eleanor Trollope
.
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
FT
carried on writing, socializing and spending time with her children, but the contrast between her lively nature and the depressing state of her home life was great. Frances Eleanor
suggests that this was due...
Friends, Associates
Frances Trollope
FT
spent Christmas 1837 with her two remaining sons and one daughter in Hadley. She was visited by, amongst others, her Viennese friend Baron Charles Hügel
.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 290
The holidays were greatly enjoyed...
Friends, Associates
Frances Trollope
Of her great popularity, Frances Eleanor Trollope
notes: she was not a famous sayer of witty things; she had no reputation of former beauty, . . . she did not trade upon an audacious self-assertion...
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...
Maunder, Andrew. “Introduction”. The Fate of Fenella, Valancourt Books, 2008, p. vii - xxiii.
vii
Mathers, Helen et al. The Fate of Fenella. Cassell, 1892, 3 vols.
titlepage
“Summary of News”. The British Architect, 27 Nov. 1891, pp. 407-8.
408
Residence
Frances Trollope
Following their marriage, they moved into 16 Keppel Street, a few houses away from FT
's first London residence; they spent the first seven years of their married life there.
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press, 1979.
16
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 11, 42
Residence
Frances Trollope
Frances Eleanor
writes of FT
's determination to fix the family's financial situation by eventually having all the Trollopes move to Cincinnati, where they planned to sell imported goods and perhaps establish a market...
Textual Production
Frances Trollope
Frances Eleanor Trollope
considered this the best-known of FT
's novels.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols.
I: 257
The book certainly sparked controversy. Critic Johanna Johnston
sees it as the sort of book people talked about, its chief character, the...
A Tale of Two Cities, Dickens's romance about the French Revolution set largely in Paris, appeared in 1859 in several forms:first serially in his new journal All the Year Round, and, overlapping...
Textual Production
Julia Frankau
In 1892 JF
contributed chapter twelve to a collaboratively-written novel entitled The Fate of Fenella (along with twenty-three other authors including Helen Mathers
, Frances Eleanor Trollope
, Conan Doyle
and Bram Stoker
).
Frankau, Reuben. Emails to Orlando about Julia Frankau, with attached bibliography. 15–16 Aug. 2011.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Timeline
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...