CHAPTER VIII

ESTABLISHMENT IN LONDON

Resettlement in England--Bright prospects for the future--Importance of _The Cornhill_ connection--_Framley Parsonage_ and other novels of clerical life--Some novelists and their illustrators--Trollope’s debt to Millais--The social services of leading lights help him in his historical pictures of the day--Election to the Garrick and Athenæum Clubs--Anthony Trollope as he appeared in 1862--Leading Garrick figures--Thackeray’s social and literary mastery over Trollope--Thackeray, Dickens, and Yates in a Garrick squabble--A divided camp--Trollope on Yates and Yates on Trollope--The origin of the politico-diplomatic Cosmopolitan Club--Informal gatherings--Trollope becomes a member--Some famous “Cosmo” characters--The end of the club--Other clubs frequented by Trollope--The Fielding--The Arundel--The Arts--The Thatched House--The Turf 134