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.
Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP...
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...
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...
Textual Features
Annie S. Swan
The indices to its bound volumes list both tales and serial tales without naming the authors—even though, as named on the pages where their work actually appears, they include such luminaries as Robert Buchanan
and...
Textual Production
Angela Thirkell
In a whole series of comic novels set in Barsetshire, AT
deliberately recreated an Anthony-Trollope
-like, present-day yet almost period world of the country gentry and the cathedral close. She called herself a sardonic...
Textual Production
Angela Thirkell
She also provided introductions for editions of Jane Austen
's Persuasion, 1946, William Makepeace Thackeray
's The Newcomes, 1954, and Anthony Trollope
's Barchester Towers, 1958.
Travel
Frances Trollope
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...
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
Wealth and Poverty
Frances Trollope
In his autobiography, Anthony
describes the attempts to save their possessions on the day they were being carried away. He says it was a scene of devastation . . . which still was not without...
