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Thomas Adolphus Trollope
Standard Name: Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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
... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Frances Eleanor Trollope | After her marriage to Thomas Adolphus Trollope
, FET
was quickly adopted into the Trollope family not only as his wife, but also as a fellow writer. Though she had begun her relationship with Thomas... |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Author summary | 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... |
| Publishing | Frances Eleanor Trollope | In 1877, FET
released her translation of the decorative book Italy from the Alps to Mount Etna by German writers Karl Stieler
, Edward Paulus
, and Woldemar Kaden
. Her husband, T. A. Trollope |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| Residence | Frances Trollope | FT
was close to her two sons: she had nursed Anthony through a year-long illness, and she and Thomas Adolphus
were close friends and companions, so her decision to live with the latter made sense... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Frances Eleanor Trollope | FET
, with her husband T. Adolphus Trollope
, published a collection of travel essays, The Homes and Haunts of the Italian Poets. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2827 (1881): 900 |
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