Helen Heineman

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...