Helen Heineman

Though FT continues to be viewed as a caustic, prejudiced critic of unfamiliar social manners, as well as a snobbish middle-class Englishwoman eager to attack those she perceived to be beneath her, her travel journals...

Heineman refers to this response when she claims the most intriguing aspect of the novel for most critics was the reversal of traditional sex roles. All the male characters are feeble, contemptible, and easily ruled...

Heineman suggests that FT 's interest in women's characters and position greatly influenced her son's writing: Alone among the great male writers of his century, Anthony produced vibrant, robust, and complex female characters ....

Set in an insular, scenic English village, the novel centres on the destructive impact of the newly appointed vicar, Mr Cartwright, whose self-seeking machinations almost destroyed the quiet and traditional patterns of a small village...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...