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.
Critic Linda H. Peterson
places the Autobiography as a response to the domestic memoir generally and to the domestication of the religious and intellectual in the memoirs of various women including Charlotte Tonna
. Instead...
Textual Features
Margaret Oliphant
Oliphant develops an extended critique of her chief bugbears, Mary Elizabeth Braddon
(the leader of her school
), Rhoda Broughton
(not by name, but as author of Cometh Up As a Flower),...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Strutt
Her picture of ecclesiastical life features the other-worldly curate, Slender, the satirically-drawn rector, the Rev. Mr Plufty, and their respective daughters. ES
gives much of the story in the words of Slender's journal (always unworldly...
Residence
Frances Trollope
Financial difficulties forced FT
and family to rent out their newly built house, Julians, and resign themselves to the small farmhouse on their leased land in Harrow; their new home was the basis...
Reception
Matilda Betham-Edwards
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...
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...
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...
Publishing
Dora Greenwell
In 1871 DG
published in Saint Pauls (a magazine edited by Anthony Trollope
for several years from October 1867) a translation of the medieval French Song of Roland (previously translated by Anne Marsh
). That...
Publishing
Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET
's novel The Sacristan's Household ran monthly in the new periodical Saint Pauls (edited by her brother-in-law Anthony Trollope
).
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
5: 785
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.
69-70
Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf.
216
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...
Publishing
Anna Letitia Waring
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...
Author summary
George Henry Lewes
At GHL
's death in 1878, Anthony Trollope
praised him as journalist, editor, critic, philosophical populariser, biographer, and scientific writer.
Ashton, Rosemary. G. H. Lewes: A Life. Clarendon Press.
279
One of the leading Victorian men of letters, he is nevertheless remembered chiefly as...
Author summary
Elizabeth Strutt
As a novelist and travel-writer and in one book of at least semi-feminist debate, ES
seems to be addressing women; but when she writes on religion she takes men as her subject. With only one...
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...
