Thomas Adolphus 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...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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 . The holidays were greatly enjoyed...

Thomas Adolphus Trollope died at the cottage he shared with FET at Budleigh Salterton in Devon.

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...

FET , with her husband T. Adolphus Trollope , published a collection of travel essays, The Homes and Haunts of the Italian Poets.

FT travelled across revolution-torn Europe to nurse her dying daughter , and to care for the latter's five children. A few days after her daughter's death, she wrote to her son Tom ...

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...

She had continued to exercise regularly and take day trips, and died peacefully in her bed at the Villino Trollope. She was buried in the English CemeteryFlorence by her son Thomas Adolphus ...

FET 's stepdaughter Bice had died in childbirth in July 1881. This, combined with Thomas 's age, may have encouraged them to move closer to their families.