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.
Passages in The Lover's Companion are grouped according to different kinds of love situation (first love, love at first sight, unrequited love, etc.). Authors used include Jane Austen
, Anthony Trollope
, Oscar Wilde
,...
Intertextuality and Influence
Frances Sarah Hoey
Miriam finds local gossip that Florence is attempting to entrap her father ludicrous, and describes it as a comic parallel to Vanity Fair, with Florence not as Becky Sharp but as Amelia having to...
Intertextuality and Influence
John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...
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...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Gaskell
Illustrated by George du Maurier
, this serial ran alongside fiction by Trollope
and Thackeray
, and shared the lead with Collins
's Armadale. EG
received £2,000 for the serialisation (as compared to Collins's...
Textual Production
Antonia Fraser
AF
supplied introductions for The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, April 1975 (by various hands), the Trollope Society
's edition of Anthony Trollope
's Framley Parsonage, 1996, and the Folio Society
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/.
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...
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...
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
Material Conditions of Writing
Mary Angela Dickens
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...
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...
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...
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.
