Category: Biographies

Anthony Trollope; His Work, Associates and Literary Originals

A “tally-ho” story--Anthony Trollope’s ancestry, historical and apocryphal--Among the Hampshire novelists--Frances Milton’s girlhood--Acquaintance with Thomas Anthony Trollope--Marriage and settlement in Keppel Street--Bright prospects soon clouded--Deep in the mire of misfort...

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I

A “tally-ho” story--Anthony Trollope’s ancestry, historical and apocryphal--Among the Hampshire novelists--Frances Milton’s girlhood--Acquaintance with Thomas Anthony Trollope--...

2. CHAPTER II

Activity at the Post Office during the thirties--The romance of letter-carrying--One of the State’s bad bargains--Trollope’s unhappy life, in the office and out of it--The novel...

3. CHAPTER III

A fresh start--Off to Ireland--The dawn of better things--Ireland in the forties and after--The Whigs and Tories in turn make vain efforts to remove the nation’s chief grievance...

4. CHAPTER IV

Trollope’s first novel, _The Macdermots of Ballycloran_--“The best Irish story that has appeared for half a century”--Clever effects of light and shade--The story’s principal ch...

5. CHAPTER V

Trollope’s _Examiner_ articles--Opposing religious experiences of boyhood and early manhood--Moulding influences of his Irish life--The cosmopolitan in the making--Interest in F...

6. CHAPTER VI

Maternal influence in the Barchester novels--Trollope’s first literary success with _The Warden_--The Barchester cycle begun--Origin of the _Barchester Towers_ plot--The cleric...

7. CHAPTER VII

Chafing in harness--“Agin the Government”--_The Three Clerks_--A visit to Mrs. Trollope--Florentine visitors of note in letters and art--A widened circle of famous friends--Diam...

8. CHAPTER VIII

Resettlement in England--Bright prospects for the future--Importance of _The Cornhill_ connection--_Framley Parsonage_ and other novels of clerical life--Some novelists and thei...

9. CHAPTER IX

Trollope’s one work in the Thackerayan vein--_Brown, Jones, and Robinson_--Its failure--Thackeray’s two efforts to enter official life by a side door--Trollope’s opinion of “unt...

10. CHAPTER X

Trollope as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Lewes among the lions of literature and science at The Priory, Regent’s Park--Charles Dickens present in the spirit, not in the flesh...

11. CHAPTER XI

Trollope and Millais succeed in their different spheres of life by working on similar principles--The ideas which led Trollope to write _Can You Forgive Her?_--Lady Macleod’s pr...

12. CHAPTER XII

Anglican orthodoxy and evangelical antipathies imbibed by Trollope in childhood--His personal objections to the Low Church Party for theological as well as social reasons--His c...

13. CHAPTER XIII

Failures of literary men in the political world at the beginning of the nineteenth century--Trollope increases the number by going under at Beverley--“Not in, but in at the deat...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Trollope’s third visit to America--That of 1868 about the Postal Treaty and Copyright Commission--Mr. and Mrs. Trollope’s Australian visit (1871) to their sheep-farming son--Fam...

15. CHAPTER XV

Trollope on the third Earl Grey, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon, and the Colonies--Intimacy at Highclere and its literary consequences--Trollope and _Cicero_, 1879--Fraternally cr...

16. CHAPTER I

A “tally-ho” story--Anthony Trollope’s ancestry, historical and apocryphal--Among the Hampshire novelists--Frances Milton’s girlhood--Acquaintance with Thomas Anthony Trollope--...

17. CHAPTER II

Activity at the Post Office during the thirties--The romance of letter-carrying--One of the State’s bad bargains--Trollope’s unhappy life, in the office and out of it--The novel...

18. CHAPTER III

A fresh start--Off to Ireland--The dawn of better things--Ireland in the forties and after--The Whigs and Tories in turn make vain efforts to remove the nation’s chief grievance...

19. CHAPTER IV

Trollope’s first novel, _The Macdermots of Ballycloran_--“The best Irish story that has appeared for half a century”--Clever effects of light and shade--The story’s principal ch...

20. CHAPTER V

Trollope’s _Examiner_ articles--Opposing religious experiences of boyhood and early manhood--Moulding influences of his Irish life--The cosmopolitan in the making--Interest in F...

21. CHAPTER VI

Maternal influence in the Barchester novels--Trollope’s first literary success with _The Warden_--The Barchester cycle begun--Origin of the _Barchester Towers_ plot--The cleric...

22. CHAPTER VII

Chafing in harness--“Agin the Government”--_The Three Clerks_--A visit to Mrs. Trollope--Florentine visitors of note in letters and art--A widened circle of famous friends--Diam...

23. CHAPTER VIII

Resettlement in England--Bright prospects for the future--Importance of _The Cornhill_ connection--_Framley Parsonage_ and other novels of clerical life--Some novelists and thei...

24. CHAPTER IX

Trollope’s one work in the Thackerayan vein--_Brown, Jones, and Robinson_--Its failure--Thackeray’s two efforts to enter official life by a side door--Trollope’s opinion of “unt...

25. CHAPTER X

Trollope as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Lewes among the lions of literature and science at The Priory, Regent’s Park--Charles Dickens present in the spirit, not in the flesh...

26. CHAPTER XI

Trollope and Millais succeed in their different spheres of life by working on similar principles--The ideas which led Trollope to write _Can You Forgive Her?_--Lady Macleod’s pr...

27. CHAPTER XII

Anglican orthodoxy and evangelical antipathies imbibed by Trollope in childhood--His personal objections to the Low Church Party for theological as well as social reasons--His c...

28. CHAPTER XIII

Failures of literary men in the political world at the beginning of the nineteenth century--Trollope increases the number by going under at Beverley--“Not in, but in at the deat...

29. CHAPTER XIV

Trollope’s third visit to America--That of 1868 about the Postal Treaty and Copyright Commission--Mr. and Mrs. Trollope’s Australian visit (1871) to their sheep-farming son--Fam...

30. CHAPTER XV

Trollope on the third Earl Grey, the fourth Earl of Carnarvon and the Colonies--Intimacy at Highclere and its literary consequences--Trollope and _Cicero_ 1879--Fraternally crit...