Anthony Trollope
1815–1882
Biography
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist who for most of his working life was also a civil servant in the General Post Office. He was born in London in 1815, into a family whose fortunes had collapsed, and his childhood was shaped by money worries. His mother, Frances Trollope, was a writer as well. He joined the Post Office as a young man and rose through its ranks, travelling across Britain and overseas on official business. He kept a disciplined routine, writing for a set number of hours each morning before going to his office.
He was one of the most prolific novelists of the Victorian age, producing roughly four dozen novels as well as travel books, short stories, a short study of Thackeray, a book on Lord Palmerston and an autobiography published after his death. Two sequences give his work its shape: the Chronicles of Barsetshire, six novels about a fictional English county and its cathedral town, and the Palliser novels, which follow the politics of Westminster. Other books, such as The Way We Live Now, are sharp satires of speculation and public life. His reputation dipped in the last years of his life and recovered in the twentieth century, helped by television adaptations, and his novels are still studied for their treatment of politics, class and the position of women.
Two of his novels are in this library. The Small House at Allington is the fifth of the Barsetshire books. It follows the romantic fortunes of Lily Dale and Johnny Eames in the village of Allington, and it is a good introduction to how Trollope handles courtship, money and the expectations of a small community. An Old Man's Love, from 1884, is a late novel about an older man's love for a much younger woman, a theme he treats with the same patient attention to character that he gave to his longer series.
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Books
An Old Man's Love
by Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope's short novel of 1884 about an elderly man who falls in love with a young woman and the family and friends who do not quite approve. A quiet study of age, regret and affection. Mature and wry. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written…
Summary written by Claude Sonnet 5.5.The Small House at Allington
by Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington is a novel by the English writer Anthony Trollope. It first appeared as a serial in the Cornhill Magazine, running from the July–December 1862 issue to the July–December issue of the following year. In 1864 it was published as an independent work in…
Summary from Wikipedia: The Small House at Allington (CC BY-SA 4.0)