Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Standard Name: Trollope, Thomas Adolphus

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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 .
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Trollope
In the eight years following her marriage, FT had seven children. One died in infancy and another at a young age. In fact, only her eldest and youngest sons, Thomas Adolphus and Anthony , survived...
Occupation Frances Eleanor Trollope
Frances Eleanor Ternan (later FET ) worked as companion governess to Thomas Adolphus Trollope 's twelve-year-old daughter, Beatrice Trollope (Bice), after the latter's mother died.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Trollope, Anthony. The Letters of Anthony Trollope. Editors Hall, N. John and Nina Burgis, Stanford University Press.
1: 414
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Trollope
The eldest of her sons, Thomas Adolphus wrote travel books, articles for periodicals, and his memoirs. FT also remained close to him, and the two lived and travelled together often over the years.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Eleanor Trollope
In her early thirties, Frances Eleanor Ternan was married in Paris to her employer, Thomas Adolphus Trollope , who was a writer (though not so well known as his younger brother) and was fifty-six years...
Occupation Frances Trollope
Her next idea was an exhibition of Dante 's Infernal Regions. Hervieu painted the scenes, and the museum's own wax manipulator, Hiram Powers , created the figures.
Hiram Powers later became a celebrated sculptor...
Travel Frances Eleanor Trollope
To avoid the conflict of the Franco-Prussian war, T. A. Trollope , FET and Bice Trollope moved from Heidelberg in Germany, where they had been living, to Bern in Switzerland.
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press.
279
Travel Frances Trollope
She continued to travel. Critic Johanna Johnston remarks on FT 's astounding energy and ability: America, Belgium and western Germany, Paris, and now Vienna and Austria—Frances Trollope had visited them...
Family and Intimate relationships Frances Eleanor Trollope
Thomas Adolphus Trollope died at the cottage he shared with FET at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.
Stebbins, Lucy Poate, and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes. The Chronicle of a Writing Family. Columbia University Press.
341
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.
I: 290
The holidays were greatly enjoyed...

Timeline

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

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.