CHAPTER X

THE BROADENING OF THE LITERARY AND GEOGRAPHICAL HORIZON

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, thinks _Adam Bede_ is by Bradbury or Evans, and doesn’t fancy it is Bradbury--Was there any exchange of literary influence between George Eliot and Trollope?--Trollope’s new departure illustrates the progress from the idyllic to the epic--_Orley Farm_--Its plot--Trollope’s first visit to the United States, in 1860 182