Anthony Trollope (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Victoria Glendinning
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Biography
- Time of Work: 1815-1882
- Setting: England and Ireland
- Principal Characters: Anthony Trollope, Frances (Fanny) Trollope, Rose Trollope, Tom Trollope, Kate Field
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Love or romance, Marriage, Novelists, Victorian era or Victorianism
- Locales: England, Ireland
Even a superficial perusal of Anthony Trollope’s life presents a conundrum: how to reconcile this most conventional, “clubbish, roast-beef” Englishman, this lifelong public servant, with his fantastic literary output, consisting of forty-seven novels plus travel writing, short fiction, and an autobiography. In part, it was the pedestrian nature of Trollope’s existence that allowed for this extraordinary creative effort. Clearly, the same habit of regularity that contributed to Trollope’s successful forty-three-year career with the Post Office permitted him to rise every day at...
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