Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anthony Trollope
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Standard Name: Trollope, Anthony
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was a popular and exceptionally productive Victorian novelist. Priding himself particularly on the creation of individual characters, he also captures the workings of social institutions like the Church, marriage, parliamentary politics, and the exercise of power in families. As well as his forty-seven novels he is remembered for short fiction, travel books, journalism of various kinds, and an autobiography. He initiated the practice of a series of novels, each self-contained but linked together by shared characters or settings.
Geraldine Jewsbury
, reviewing this book for the Athenæum early the next year, was not exactly encouraging. She guessed the author's gender correctly, and judged the novel a pale imitation of Charlotte Brontë
's Jane...
Textual Production
Isa Blagden
Smith, Elder and Co.
of London released Agnes Tremorne in two volumes. It has been sugested that Anthony Trollope
helped get this first novel published, and that Robert Browning
may have similarly persuaded publishers to...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Bowen
EB
published a slim pamphlet in dialogue form entitled Anthony Trollope
: A New Judgement.
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Publishing
Elizabeth Bowen
It contained reviews previously published in New Statesman, Observer, and The Spectator, as well as the Trollope
dialogue, Notes on Writing a Novel, and a variety of essays.
Sellery, J’nan M., and William O. Harris. Elizabeth Bowen: A Bibliography. University of Texas.
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Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
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Literary responses
Rhoda Broughton
Other reviews were more complimentary. The Spectator judged both Not Wisely, but Too Well and Cometh Up as a Flower to be no more immoral than Jane Eyre, and said that they represented the...
Publishing
Caroline Clive
After she became established as a novelist, CC
was approached by the editors of the new Once a Week in April 1859 with a request to write a serial for them: she was their first...
Literary responses
Louisa Stuart Costello
A reviewer for the The Atlas praised these volumes as being written with true gusto; they sparkle over with sketches of romantic scenery, outlines of antique places, historical legends, [and] local traditions.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
The reviewer for...
Textual Features
Ella D'Arcy
Oddly, D'Arcy chooses old-fashioned symbolic names for her two main male characters: more like an Anthony Trollope
novel than one of the 1890s. Bishop Wise is unwise and the priest Herbert Fayler is a failure...
Textual Features
Ella D'Arcy
The marriage here seems quite stable. John Corbett lives comfortably with his wife Minnie and her sister Letty in a large, ostentatious, inefficient Twickenham villa, but the women's lack of education has left them empty-minded...
The journal All the Year Round, founded by MAD
's grandfather
and then edited by her father, was one of the first and most significant platforms for her short stories and serialized novels. Other...
Literary responses
George Eliot
Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE
Reception
George Eliot
GE
's work very early became a byword among Victorian critics for that even then problematic category of realism. According to literary historian Leah Price
, she was the most extensively anthologized novelist among her...
Occupation
Emily Faithfull
But the debate over female employment brought hostility towards EF
. Anthony Trollope
commented rather patronizingly on her ventures in his book North America. Arthur Munby
claimed in his diary, after visiting the Victoria...
Literary responses
Julia Frankau
The novel caused scandal both to Jewish readers, who judged it anti-semitic, and to gentile readers, who found its treatment of sex outside marriage too outspoken.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
April 1817: The first issue of Blackwood's Edinburgh...
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April 1817
The first issue of Blackwood's EdinburghMagazine appeared; founder William Blackwood
intended to offer Tory competition to the liberal Edinburgh Review.
1856: Under the direction of Sir Rowland Hill,...
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1856
Under the direction of Sir Rowland Hill
, London was divided into twelve postal districts, named after the points of the compass (SW, W, NW, etc.) with two central districts: WC and EC.
“London’s Postcodes (ZIP Codes)”. LondonTown.
7 February 1865: The first issue appeared of George Smith's...
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7 February 1865
The first issue appeared of George Smith
's innovative evening newspaper, The Pall Mall Gazette.
October 1867: The first issue of Saint Pauls was published...
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October 1867
The first issue of Saint Pauls was published by James Sprent Virtue
; editor Anthony Trollope
created a shilling periodical featuring serials, reviews, and political discussion.
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,
March 1874: The final issue of Saint Paul's was publ...
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March 1874
The final issue of Saint Paul's was published.
12 April 1877: The Transvaal in South Africa was annexed...
National or international item
12 April 1877
The Transvaal in South Africa was annexed for the UK when Sir Theophilus Shepstone
marched into it with twenty-five policemen and a Union Jack,
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
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as Anthony Trollope
put it.
April 1879: James Murray—editor since 1 March of what...
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April 1879
James Murray
—editor since 1 March of what was to become the Oxford English Dictionary—issued an Appeal for readers to supply illustrative quotations.
Texts
Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. William Blackwood and Sons, 1883.
Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Harper and Brothers, 1883.
Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography. Oxford University Press, 1961.
