Helen Heineman

Helen Heineman , biographer of AT 's mother, argues that his vibrant, robust, and complex female characters and the way their predicament as women is presented, all owe their being to Frances Trollope 's literary...

The subplot of Blue Belles features a current literary sensation, whose overnight success secures him in the course of a single month 376 invitations to dinner, 120 requests for personal inscriptions, 70 for autographs, and...

Frances's earliest friendships were forged with intelligent young women like herself, such as Marianne Gabell , a headmaster's daughter. She also socialized with older women, including Mrs George Mitford , the mother of Mary Russell Mitford

Helen Heineman finds that for some time this book moves like an exciting mystery story, but that it then declines into melodrama, and Hargrave himself becomes a monstrosity. However, she agrees with the Athenæum...

Thomas Adolphus writes in his autobiography of his and his siblings' positive experiences with their mother: [a]ll our happiest hours were spent with her; and to any one of us a tête-à-tête with her was...

Throughout the 1840sFT published novels about the complications encountered by intelligent and independent young women in their search for happiness in marriage. Critic Helen Heineman observes, as she produced the light romances then in...

They built additions to the smallish building, giving the structure an odd shape, and though it was not nearly as nice as Julians, FT and her family managed to make their new home quite...

Helen Heineman describes this book as a pastiche of seances, mesmerism, Roman Catholic conversions, wicked guardians, and social class snobbery that displays a distinct decline in FT 's writing abilities.

Frances Eleanor writes of FT 's determination to fix the family's financial situation by eventually having all the Trollopes move to Cincinnati, where they planned to sell imported goods and perhaps establish a market...

Remembering her satiric tone in Domestic Manners, the Athenæum reviewer noted that FTwrites throughout in a kindlier spirit than we had anticipated. Another reviewer, too, described her tone here as...

Though FT had been a popular person in the places where she had lived in England, she did not fare as well with the American elite. Heineman suggests that the combination of her highly visible...

FT 's financial situation improved dramatically after the publication of her first book, Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832; the proceeds from her second book saved her family from poverty and enabled them to...

In preparation for her 1840 novel Michael Armstrong, FT travelled to Manchester to look into the conditions of children working in factories. This research visit inspired her outspoken writings against child labour and the...

FT had planned to live at Carlton Hill in the Lake District near her daughter Cecilia . However, after less than a year, she had already begun to make plans to leave the house she...

Her tombstone was engraved with a Latin inscription, which translates in part to: Here lies what was mortal of Frances Trollope—but her special spirit is divine, and her memory seeks no marble monument.