Johanna Johnston

Frances Milton (later FT ) was born at Stapleton near Bristol.

FT 's opinion that church services should not be sensational foreshadows her famously strong reaction to what she perceived as the uncouth manners of Americans. One of her biographers writes that she was always specially...

Frances Milton met her future husband, Thomas Anthony Trollope , in 1808, when Henry Milton brought him to their house. Thomas was thirty-four, a barrister, and the son of a clerk in Holy Orders. In...

FT did not grieve for long, but displayed what Johnston describes as her lifelong trait of the abrupt rejection of sorrow.

Frances Eleanor Trollope considered this the best-known of FT 's novels. The book certainly sparked controversy. Critic Johanna Johnston sees it as the sort of book people talked about, its chief character, the...

She continued to travel. Critic Johanna Johnston remarks on FT 's astounding energy and ability: America, Belgium and western Germany, Paris, and now Vienna and Austria—Frances Trollope had visited them...