Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Anthony Trollope
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Standard Name: Trollope, Anthony
AT
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.
Her estate was valued at £36,393, 13s. 3d., a substantial amount for any writer of the period (and considerably more than contemporaries such as Wilkie Collins
and Anthony Trollope
).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates
Emma Caroline Wood
Visitors to Rivenhall included Edwin Landseer
, Anthony Trollope
and George Meredith
. Frequent visits of guests, coupled with the fact that the entire family was expected to participate actively in social life, gave the...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Rebecca West
This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature.
At two shillings and sixpence, this collection was inexpensive. Almost twenty enlarged editions were published, by various publishers, between 1852 and 1911.
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.
Waring was widely read and used by congregations in both England and the...
Reception
Lucy Walford
In 1887 Coventry Patmore
said of LW
that her depictions of contemporary life far surpassed those of Dickens
, Thackeray
, Trollope
, Eliot
, and Gaskell
, declaring her work to be equalled only...
FT
travelled to Mallow in Ireland to visit her son Anthony
and her daughter-in-law Rose
.
Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria. AMS Press.
II: 153
politics
Frances Trollope
Mary Russell Mitford
later recalled that FTused to be such a Radical that her house in London was a perfect emporium of escaped state criminals. I remember asking her at one of her parties...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
Her husband's presence disrupted their domestic harmony.
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. What I Remember. Harper and Brothers.
40-2
Thomas Anthony Trollope
was not a violent or vicious man, but despite his affection for his family, his bad temper and melancholy ensured that [n]o one of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Frances Trollope
Novelist Anthony Trollope
was FT
's youngest son. Through correspondence, and travelling and living together, they maintained a close friendship throughout their lives. His portrait of FT's character in his autobiography paints her as neither...
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Trollope
At first, the family visited the farmhouse during summers, only moving permanently to Harrow in about 1815 when they desired more room than their residence in London provided. Concern for FT
's health, given her...
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Trollope
Her husband and son Anthony
, who was a day student, moved into a two-room farmhouse almost three miles from Harrow at Harrow Weald. Anthony remembers it as a gloomy, unhappy time, not only...
Timeline
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,...
Building item
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.
243
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.
