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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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--...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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--...

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...

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...