Frances Trollope

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Standard Name: Trollope, Frances
Birth Name: Frances Milton
Nickname: Fanny
Married Name: Frances Trollope
Frances Trollope is best known for her novels and travel writing about early nineteenth-century America. She was also known for her outspoken social reform novels, and for her depictions of independent, intelligent, vulgar and manipulative women—often unmarried or widowed—who scheme intellectually-inferior men out of money and into marriage. FT was herself known as blunt, intelligent, and witty; her writing reflects these traits, her Tory politics, and her advocacy for slaves, women, and the poor. She often introduced current witticisms and colloquialisms into her prose. Although she began writing only in her early fifties, she published thirty-four novels, six travel books, two long narrative poems, several verse dramas, scripts for home theatricals and many periodical contributions over a span of thirty years.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
Button, Marilyn D. “Reclaiming Mrs. Frances Trollope: British Abolitionist and Feminist”. College Language Association Journal, Vol.
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Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research.
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Photograph of a painting of Frances Trollope by Auguste Hervieu, c. 1832, seated in a red upholstered chair, against a dark background. She is wearing a dark red-brown dress with blue and gold cuffs, a blue and gold buckle on the waistband, and large lace collar matching the bonnet that covers her dark, smooth, middle-parted hair. National Portrait Gallery.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Frances Wright
Mary Shelley was present at FW 's departure. Frances Trollope was disappointed by the conditions of the colony and even more so by what she felt had been a misrepresentation of its advantages. Fearing for...
Fictionalization Frances Wright
As so many of FW 's works were addressed to particular occasions, so their later publishing history has tended to reflect the immediate political goals of various socialist or feminist movements at later moments in...
Travel Frances Wright
FW and Frances Trollope sailed from England for America, heading for Wright's colony of Nashoba.
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
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Friends, Associates Frances Wright
In Philadelphia FW made acquaintances including famous local publisher Matthew Carey , actor Thomas Abthorpe Cooper , Portuguese ambassador Correa da Serra , and Napoleon's brother Joseph Bonaparte .
Eckhardt, Celia Morris. Fanny Wright. Harvard University Press.
30, 33
During her time in...
Friends, Associates Frances Wright
On her voyage back to Europe, FW had as companion Robert Owen 's son, Robert Dale Owen . During her stay in Europe, she made the acquaintance of Mary Shelley (who became a friend and...
Literary responses Ellen Wood
Within a few years EW 's popularity had decidedly waned. Margaret Oliphant in The Victorian Age of English Literature found nothing to say about Wood beyond that fact that her works sold by the fifty...
Family and Intimate relationships Anthony Trollope
His mother, Frances (Milton) Trollope was a prolific novelist, whose writing became the chief support of her family.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reception Anthony Trollope
Helen Heineman , biographer of AT 's mother, argues that his vibrant, robust, and complex female characters and the way their predicament as women is presented, all owe their being to Frances Trollope 's literary...
Textual Production Frances Eleanor Trollope
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.
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Friends, Associates Frances Eleanor Trollope
In addition to her supportive professional relationship with her husband, FET was also close to other writers such as Charles Dickens , her brother-in-law Anthony Trollope , her mother-in-law Frances Trollope , and George Eliot
Literary responses Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Athenæum lauded FET 's family knack of investing commonplace life with dramatic interest,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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no doubt referring to her mother-in-law Frances Trollope , and the latter's son, Anthony Trollope .
Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Trollope
The novelists Frances Trollope and her far more famous son Anthony Trollope were collateral but not direct ancestors of JT . She has praised them both warmly in print, perhaps more for their personal qualities...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Joanna Trollope
JT 's introduction to an edition of her ancestor Anthony Trollope 's autobiography, 1987 (reproduced in condensed form on her website), remarks that Frances Trollopein the end saved the family finances by her own...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Flora Tristan
One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage.
Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books.
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FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Publishing Harriet Taylor
HT 's reviews include an appraisal of Sarah Austin 's translation Tour of a German Prince, which appeared in May 1832.
Taylor, Harriet. The Complete Works of Harriet Taylor Mill. Editors Jacobs, Jo Ellen and Paula Harms Payne, Indiana University Press.
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Hayek, Friedrich Augustus von et al. John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor; Their Correspondence [i.e. Friendship] and Subsequent Marriage. University of Chicago Press.
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A harsh review of Frances Trollope 's Domestic Manners of the...

Timeline

1827: Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish...

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1827

Giuseppe Gioachino Belli began to publish I Sonetti; the last of them appeared in 1849.

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

6 July 1839: In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat...

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6 July 1839

In A Diary in America, Frederick Marryat promoted the stereotype that middle-class Americans adhered to a more strict paradigm of prudishness than their British counterparts, and apparently gave rise to the myth that Victorians...

By 29 August 1846: Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope,...

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By 29 August 1846

Cecilia Tilley (a daughter of Frances Trollope , who died two years later, at thirty-one, of tuberculosis) published Chollerton: a tale of our times, as by a Lady.

9 April 1855: American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England...

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9 April 1855

American Daniel Dunglas Home arrived in England as a self-proclaimed spiritualist missionary.

By Christmas 1869: Francis Galton, mathematician, scientist,...

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By Christmas 1869

Francis Galton , mathematician, scientist, and eugenicist, published Hereditary Genius: An Enquiry into its Laws and Consequences,

Texts

Trollope, Frances. A Visit to Italy. Richard Bentley, 1842.
Trollope, Frances. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. John Murray, 1834.
Trollope, Frances et al. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Whittaker, Treacher, 1832.
Trollope, Frances. Domestic Manners of the Americans. Editor Larson, John Lauritz, Brandywine Press, 1993.
Trollope, Frances. Fashionable Life; or, Paris and London. Hurst and Blackett, 1856.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Henry Colburn, 1847.
Trollope, Frances. Father Eustace. Garland, 1975.
Trollope, Frances. Hargrave; or, The Adventures of a Man of Fashion. Henry Colburn, 1843.
Trollope, Frances. Jessie Phillips. Henry Colburn, 1843.
Trollope, Frances. Jessie Phillips. Henry Colburn, 1844.
Trollope, Frances. Mrs. Mathews; or, Family Mysteries. Colburn, 1851.
Trollope, Frances. One Fault. Richard Bentley, 1840.
Trollope, Frances. Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Richard Bentley, 1836.
Trollope, Frances. The Abbess. Whittaker, Treacher, 1833.
Trollope, Frances. The Attractive Man. Henry Colburn, 1846.
Trollope, Frances. The Blue Belles of England. Saunders and Otley, 1842.
Trollope, Frances. The Laurringtons; or, Superior People. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. Hurst and Blackett, 1854.
Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw. Richard Bentley , 1836.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong the Factory Boy. Henry Colburn, 1840.
Trollope, Frances. The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy. Frank Cass, 1968.
Trollope, Frances. The Lottery of Marriage. Henry Colburn, 1849.
Trollope, Frances. The Refugee in America. Whittaker, Treacher, 1832.
Trollope, Frances, and Auguste Hervieu. The Vicar of Wrexhill. Richard Bentley, 1837.
Trollope, Frances. The Widow Barnaby. R. Bentley, 1839.