Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Standard Name: Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Isa Blagden
IB was fond of society life, had a wide circle of friends, and was noted for her hospitality. Her home at the Villa Brichieri, with its terraced garden overlooking Florence and the Arno, was...
Friends, Associates Isa Blagden
Thomas Adolphus Trollope described IB as a very bright, warm-hearted, very clever little woman, who knew everybody and was, I think, more universally beloved than any other individual among us.
Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol.
xii
, pp. 446-63.
456
Literary responses Isa Blagden
Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
446
IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
During her months in Florence, FPC visited the Brownings, Thomas Adolphus Trollope , and Walter Savage Landor . While there she also became a close friend of Mary Somerville .
Cobbe, Frances Power. Life of Frances Power Cobbe. Houghton, Mifflin.
2: 346-9, 358
Friends, Associates Frances Power Cobbe
FPC 's connections from home gave her introductions into the circles of US and British women living in Italy, including Harriet Hosmer (who became a close friend). She met Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning ...
Textual Production Emily Davies
Under ED 's editorship, the periodical combined literary contributions (such as poetry by Christina Rossetti and fiction by Thomas Adolphus Trollope ) with book reviews, reports of bodies such as the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women
Friends, Associates Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His international travel and family ties to England's literary scene ensured him a wide social circle. He knew Charles Dickens , John Forster , and Frances Mary Peard . While living in Florence, he became...
Friends, Associates George Eliot
Despite her and Lewes's uneven health, they were still able at times to socialise with the likes of Robert Browning , Frederic Leighton , Clara Schumann , Alfred Tennyson , Dean Stanley , J. A. Froude
Friends, Associates Jessie White Mario
About this time JWM was introduced to Thomas Adolphus Trollope (another long-term English resident of Italy). She also knew George Henry Lewes and later met his partner George Eliot .
Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press.
104, 112
Reception Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET was awarded a Civil List Pension in 1893, the year after Thomas had died.
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press.
340
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Dedications Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET wrote to publisher Richard Bentley as follows regarding the possibility of compiling these memoirs: I have been looking over a great mass of papers relating to Frances Trollope. There is a vast deal of...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Trollope
FT 's husband and their eldest son, Thomas Anthony Trollope and Thomas Adolphus , joined her in Cincinnati, where she had been living for almost a year.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press.
I: 116
Johnston, Johanna. The Life, Manners, and Travels of Fanny Trollope: A Biography. Hawthorn Books.
87
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
62
Residence Frances Trollope
FT and her son Thomas Adolphus moved to Italy, where they settled in Florence.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research.
21: 324
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press.
II: 29
Residence Frances Trollope
FT moved in with her son Thomas Adolphus and daughter-in-law Theodosia at Villino Trollope in Florence.
Johnston, Johanna. The Life, Manners, and Travels of Fanny Trollope: A Biography. Hawthorn Books.
203
Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press.
240
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 .

Timeline

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

Building item

9 April 1855

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

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

Writing climate item

By Christmas 1869

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

Texts

Stieler, Karl et al. Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna. Trollope, Thomas AdolphusEditor & translator , Chapman and Hall, 1877.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor, and Thomas Adolphus Trollope. The Homes and Haunts of the Italian Poets. Chapman and Hall, 1881.
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. What I Remember. Harper and Brothers, 1888.