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.
JT
donated her literary archive (notes, book manuscripts, journals, correspondence, and recordings) to the Bodleian Library
at Oxford (which also holds the manuscripts of her forebear Anthony Trollope
).
Priestman, Judith. “Joanna Trollope leaves her literary archive to the Bodleian”. Bodleian Library Friends’ Newsletter.
Occupation
Frances Eleanor Trollope
It has also been suggested that the couple urged FET
to take the position for reasons quite unrelated to London gossip: Anthony
and Rose
. . . were convinced that her clever talk was exactly...
Family and Intimate relationships
Joanna Trollope
The novelists Frances Trollope
and her far more famous son Anthony Trollope
were collateral but not direct ancestors of JT
. She has praised them both warmly in print, perhaps more for their personal qualities...
Friends, Associates
Frances Eleanor Trollope
In addition to her supportive professional relationship with her husband, FET
was also close to other writers such as Charles Dickens
, her brother-in-law Anthony Trollope
, her mother-in-law Frances Trollope
, and George Eliot
Literary responses
Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Athenæum lauded FET
's family knack of investing commonplace life with dramatic interest,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2514 (1876): 18
no doubt referring to her mother-in-law Frances Trollope
, and the latter's son, Anthony Trollope
.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Joanna Trollope
JT
's introduction to an edition of her ancestor Anthony Trollope
's autobiography, 1987 (reproduced in condensed form on her website), remarks that Frances Trollopein the end saved the family finances by her own...
Textual Production
Frances Eleanor Trollope
At this time Saint Paul's was still being edited by FET
's brother-in-law, Anthony Trollope
.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
I
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Eleanor Trollope
After her marriage to Thomas Adolphus Trollope
, FET
was quickly adopted into the Trollope family not only as his wife, but also as a fellow writer. Though she had begun her relationship with Thomas...
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...
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.
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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...
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...
