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Trollope was born in London, England, the son of a barrister, and educated at various public schools until his family moved to Belgium.
Trollope himself obtained a job in the Post Office in 1834, and was sent to work in Ireland in 1841.
Anthony Trollope died in 1882 and was interred in Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, where Wilkie Collins is also buried.
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 The Trollope Society
The Trollope Society exists, with a world-wide membership, to promote and publish the works of Anthony Trollope, to provide a forum for the exploration of all aspects of his life, and to encourage the reading and enjoyment of his fiction for future generations.
Twelve years on, a memorial to Anthony Trollope was unveiled in Poets' Corner by the Prime Minister; and all forty-seven volumes of the complete novels have now been published in the Complete Edition, as well as all five volumes of the short stories, and almost all of the non-fiction, including his travel books.
Anthony Trollope was, he confessed, thoroughly miserable and 'always in disgrace' at school, yet he became a much loved author.
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 §7. Anthony Trollope; The Barchester series. XIII. Lesser Novelists. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anthony Trollope, after a wretched boyhood and youth, of which he gives some glimpses in his Autobiography and in The Three Clerks (1858), entered upon a doubly prosperous career as a civil servant in the post office and as a man of letters.
Slope, dean Arabin, lord Lufton, the Thornes, the Greshams, the Dales, the Crawleys, the whole multitudinous population of the county.
Trollope was a Palmerstonian, and his predilection was for the middle and upper middle classes, for clerical dignitaries who have more of Johnson’s principles than of his piety, for the landed gentry, the county representatives and the hunting set.
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 ANTHONY TROLLOPE - LoveToKnow Article on ANTHONY TROLLOPE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trollope had always dreamt of novel-writing, and his Irish experiences seemed to supply him with promising subjects.
Trollope seldom creates a character of the first merit; at the same time his characters are ~always alive.
Trollope wrote an Autobiography, edited by his son Henry l\i Trohlope in 1883, explaining his literary methods with amusing frankness.
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 Literary Encyclopedia: Trollope, Anthony
Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24 April 1815 to Thomas Anthony Trollope (1774-1835) and Frances Milton (1779-1863).
Trollope later claimed that these comments summed up “with wonderful accuracy the purport that I have ever had in view in my writing.” “I have always”, he added, “desired to 'hew out some lump of the earth,' and to make men and women walk upon it just as they do walk here among us.
Trollope played out his interest in politics via the so-called 'Palliser' novels in which his characters attempt to navigate their way through the political and marital intrigues of London's parliamentary world.
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 Anthony Trollope: Biography
nthony Trollope, novelist, was the fourth son of Thomas Anthony Trollope, a barrister, and Frances (Milton) Trollope.
In 1822 Anthony became a day-boy at Harrow School; in 1825 he was transferred to Arthur Drury's private school at Sunbury; and in 1827 he went to his father's old school, Winchester.
Trollope is, in fact, supreme in his own field, but it is a narrow field‹the ordinary life of upper middle-class England (and especially clerical England) of his time.
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 Anthony Trollope
In his autobiography (1883) Trollope wrote, that the novelist's task is "to make his readers so intimately acquainted with his characters that the creation of his brain should be to them speaking, moving, living, human creatures." Trollope is notable for having developed the chronicle form of fiction.
Trollope has recalled that some of her best works were born during the tragic period when her husband and daughter died.
Trollope deepened the presentation of the dry, ambitious politician and his brilliant wife Glencora, and later considered that they were the two characters on whom his reputation with posterity would rest.
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 The Classical Library - Anthony Trollope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Trollope was a prolific author of essays, travel books, and novels.
The family's poverty embarrased Trollope during his education at the prestigious schools of Harrow and Winchester, where sometimes his parents could not afford to pay their son's school fees.
His mother, Frances Trollope (1780-1863), took her three youngest children to America to assist in the founding of a utopian community in New Harmony, Indiana.
www.classicallibrary.org /trollope   (422 words)

  
 Partly Told In Letters: Trollope's Story-telling Art
Trollope was a civil servant who thought of letters as objects entrusted to his care, each and every one of which should arrive unscathed and in a timely fashion to where or to whom it was directed.
Trollope is the only nineteenth-century English novelist to recognise a failure of imagination in the expectation that letters magically turn up on breakfast tables.
Trollope twice uses epistolary rearrangement to climax these two chapters on Arabella's switch from Morton to Rufford in order to place before us how much this woman's stubborn resistance against accepting a lower and less exciting place in her society costs her, how much mortification and punishment she is willing to take.
www.thecore.nus.edu.sg /victorian/authors/trollope/moody/moody1.html   (10251 words)

  
 Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (Jon Michael Varese, Philadelphia Branch of the Dickens Fellowship)
TROLLOPE -- a list devoted to the discussion of all aspects of the life and works of 19th century English author Anthony Trollope.
Trollope Prize, The, is awarded annually to the best undergraduate essay in English on the works of Anthony Trollope.
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 Anthony Trollope Homepage and Biography on Bibliomania.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The son of Thomas Anthony Trollope, a lawyer, and of Frances Trollope, a prolific writer herself, Anthony Trollope was born in London in 1815.
Trollope was recalled from Ireland to the south west of England in 1851 in order to reorganise the regional postal services, and it was during the two years that he was thus occupied that he came up with the idea for the Barsetshire series of novels.
On his return to England Trollope was awarded the directorship of the postal district of eastern England, but being less happy in his work than he had been in Ireland, and now earning enough to support himself through his literary endeavours, he resigned from the Post Office in 1867.
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 Trollope, Anthony. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In his later novels Trollope shifted his interest from the rural scene to urban society and politics.
According to Henry James, Trollope’s greatness lies in his “complete appreciation of the usual.” The Barsetshire novels, upon which his fame rests, depict in detail the lives of a group of ordinary but interesting people who live in the county of Barsetshire.
Her acerbic account of her travels in the United States, The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), was offensive to Americans but was a bestseller in England and began her career as a successful writer.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | Authors | Trollope, Anthony
Trollope was a chronicler of the minutiae of upper-middle-class Victorian England.
George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, early Dickens (Trollope loathed the politicism of his later works, and called him "very ignorant and thick-skinned...not a hero at all").
Anthony Trollope And His Contemporaries by David Skilton (1996) situates Trollope in his time.
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 Trollope Society Short Story Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
To encourage interest in his novels among young people, the Trollope Society has established an annual short story competition.
The Trollope Society exists, with a world-wide membership, to promote and publish the works of Anthony Trollope.
In the USA enquiries should be made to the North American branch at The Trollope Society, c/o The Mercantile Library, 17 East 47th Street, New York, NY 10017; phone or fax +1 212 758 1355; e-mail info@trollopeusa.org.
www.trollopestoryprize.org   (192 words)

  
 'Masterpiece' doles out a fresh dollop of Trollope -- 'He Knew He Was Right' -- a tale of mad jealousy
Trollope chronicled the lives of upper-middle- class Victorians in an extensive series of solid if unsubtle novels appealing to readers in search of a civilized diversion.
Trollope wanted to created a modern "Othello" -- but it's also very much about the nefarious relationship between money and marriage in Victorian England (the novel was published in 1869).
This adaptation, by the skillful Andrew Davies (who's written numerous "Masterpiece" scripts), also underlines the plight of women who, bound by the unwritten but inescapable social rules, had to marry, and marry well, or be damned.
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 Frances Trollope   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1839 Trollope became involved in the campaign against the employment of children in factories.
Her son Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was also a successful novelist.
In the room they entered, the dirty, ragged miserable crew, were all active performance of their various tasks; the overlookers, strap in hand, on the alert; the whirling spindles urging the little slaves who waited on them.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /IRtrollope.htm   (367 words)

  
 The Anthony Trollope Page
Trollope appears to have heard of it from Palmerston's adviser, the Earl of Shaftesbury, a fellow guest.
There is both good news and bad news for admirers of Anthony Trollope, arguably the best loved and most widely read today of the great Victorian novelists, as the anniversary of his death on December 6th, 1882 approaches.
Trollope’s hidden life is inextricably bound up with the great commercial and maritime events of the mid Victorian era.
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 Trollope, Anthony on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trollope's mother, Frances Fanny Trollope, 1780-1863, was also a writer.
Feminism, fiction and contract theory: Trollope's 'He Knew He Was Right.' (Anthony Trollope)
At 61, the novelist Joanna Trollope is celebrating a new-found pleasure in her status as a si
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 biography
This did nothing to improve the relationship, although Tom was a close friend and great admirer of Dickens.) Anthony Trollope wrote a lengthy obituary when Dickens died, which, as Dickens scholar Michael Slater has observed, indicated his "disapproval of Dickens's art"while paying fitting respect to him as a man and simultaneously rejecting his political outlook.
In his own autobiography, not published until after is death, Trollope recognized the vigor of Dickens's character and his moral influence, but could not accept the journalistic and melodramatic features of Dickens's works.
Trollope also includes a history of the novel that emphasizes that novelists and their readers have shifted their interest from upper classes to workers and what Carlyle called "Captains of Industry." What would Trollope think of claims that this movement down the social scale has produced more realistic visions of the world?
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 Trollope Prize   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Trollope was a prolific author of essays, travel books, and novels, including Barchester Towers and The Eustace Diamonds.
The Trollope Prize was established by anonymous benefactors to encourage the reading and enjoyment of this important yet under-read literary giant of the 19th century.
The essay will be published on the Trollope Prize website and eventually be included in a collection of Trollope Prize-winning essays.
www.fas.harvard.edu /~trollope   (236 words)

  
 Trollope-l: Trollope and His Contemporaries: A Discussion List
The terrain of Trollope-l is the life and writing of Anthony Trollope in the context of everything to do with the long 19th century (1815-1914).
Ellen Moody's Trollope on the Net is in part a history of a series of group reads she and Michael Powe participated in on a mailing list run by Elizabeth Thomson which was simply called the Trollope list and ran on Majordomo software (its successor, which has a different listowner, may be found on yahoo.com).
You can argue with content of the posting as regards Trollope and his contemporaries but not the attitudes of the poster as regards him or herself or the status you imagine the poster to have in "real" life; that is to discuss the listmember.
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 AllRefer.com - Anthony Trollope (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
AllRefer.com - Anthony Trollope (English Literature, 19th Century, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Anthony Trollope[trol´up] Pronunciation Key, 1815–82, one of the great English novelists.
After spending seven unhappy years in London as a clerk in the general post office, he transferred (1841) to Ireland and became post-office inspector; he held various positions in the postal service until his resignation in 1867.
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In the days of Trollope, men who sold their friends down the river for money would have received a good caning by the gentlemen in the community.
(Says Trollope in one of his books, "But she felt that if Bernard would thrash the coward for his cowardice she would love her nephew better than ever she had loved him.") Of course, that was wrong and justice cannot be a private affair, but what is to be done with such men now?
In the days of Trollope, men who deceived their friends and betrayed private confidences would have been cut from their clubs for life.
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 E-Texts and a Concordance for Anthony Trollope's Works
Anthony Trollope: "The Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne", from North American Review, CCLXXIV (September, 1879), pp.
Anthony Trollope's short stories as follows: "A Ride Across Palestine" (also called "The Banks of the Jordan"), "Aaron Trowe," "An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids," "Christmas at Thomson Hall," "George Walker at Suez," "John Bull on the Guadalquivir," "La Mère Bauche," "Sarah Jack of Spanish 'Town, Jamaica," and "Mrs General Talboys."
Anthony Trollope's novels: Phineas Redux, The Eustace Diamonds, Rachel Ray, The American Senator, The Belton Estate,The Duke's Children, The Golden Lion of Granpère, The Kellys and OKellys, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Prime Minister, The Small House at Allington, The Three Clerks, The Warden, and The Way We Live Now
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope (#40 in our series by Anthony Trollope) Copyright laws are changing all over the world.
She followed the man in, and walking up the centre of the room, addressed me in a loud voice: "Anthony Trollope, when are you going to marry my daughter?" We have all had our worst moments, and that was one of my worst.
Trollope some brandy and water--very hot." I was beginning my story about the post again when he himself took off my greatcoat, and suggested that I should go up to my bedroom before I troubled myself with business.
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