Anthony Trollope

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Standard Name: Trollope, Anthony
AT 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.
Photograph of woodbury type print depicting Anthony Trollope from the chest up. He has curly white/grey hair and beard, and is wearing glasses and a suit. His gaze looks slightly to the right, and his brow appears furrowed.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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 Frances Trollope
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 ....
Intertextuality and Influence Ruth Rendell
Wexford's relationships with his wife and younger daughter are contrasted with the relationships of people he investigates in connection with the murder. His wife also gains Wexford's admiration when she contrives to make him jealous...
Intertextuality and Influence Frances Eleanor Trollope
After her marriage to Thomas Adolphus Trollope , FET was quickly adopted into the Trollope family not only as his wife, but also as a fellow writer. Though she had begun her relationship with Thomas...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Oliphant
Carlingford was the first English setting in MO 's fiction, apart from London. In inventing it she was following the precedent of Trollope 's Barsetshire.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
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In The Rector the protagonist comes to Carlingford from...
Leisure and Society Edith Somerville
In her later years ES set out to extend her reading. She tried Woolf 's A Room of One's Own (at the behest of Ethel Smyth ) and admired it. But she could not like...
Leisure and Society Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin, 1985.
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on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...
Literary responses Rhoda Broughton
Other reviews were more complimentary. The Spectator judged both Not Wisely, but Too Well and Cometh Up as a Flower to be no more immoral than Jane Eyre, and said that they represented the...
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, 1965.
The reviewer for...
Literary responses Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Trollope admired her work alongside that of Rhoda Broughton , though he thought her writing lazy.
qtd. in
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
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Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated a poem to her, inciting her to further literary biographies after reading A Book...
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
Literary responses Frances Eleanor Trollope
The Athenæum lauded FET 's family knack of investing commonplace life with dramatic interest,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
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no doubt referring to her mother-in-law Frances Trollope , and the latter's son, Anthony Trollope .
Literary responses Charlotte Yonge
During her lifetime CY was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen , Trollope , Balzac , and Zola . Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott , Margaret Oliphant , Ellen Wood , and Rhoda Broughton made...
Literary responses Barbara Pym
BP 's father wrote to her on 3 May 1950 commending this novel, which he had not expected to enjoy since he preferred mysteries.
Wyatt-Brown, Anne M. Barbara Pym: A Critical Biography. University of Missouri Press, 1992.
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Robert Liddell , who had been familiar with it throughout...

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