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Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as The Way We Live Now. His novels address political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters. He also wrote an autobiography, a book on William Makep…
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Born 24 April 1815 · Died 6 December 1882 · Q318399
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2026· 3 entries
“s novels (The Belton Estate, for instance, he called”
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“roughness ... Spartan simplicity and the dirtiness of the Boer”
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2025· 2 entries
Consumer pounds) for a novel, provided that a substantial part of it could be available to the printer within six weeks
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Consumer pounds); he preferred this to waiting for a share of future profits
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2019· 1 entry
TheLadders.com: The 15-minute morning routine Anthony Trollope used to write 1 book each year for 39 years
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Anthony Trollope tops Hatchards poll to find best novel of past 200 years
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2014· 2 entries
The Conversation: Celebrity blows: Anthony Trollope and those touchy colonials
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BBC: Anthony Trollope’s The Warden
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2011· 1 entry
The University of Kansas's Department of English, in collaboration with the Hall Center for the Humanities and in partnership with The Fortnightly Review, began awarding an annual Trollope Prize
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1934· 1 entry
That "Trollope is still very much alive
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1882· 5 entries
Died 1882-12-06.
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Australian papers still "smouldered", referring yet again to these accusations, and refusing to fully praise or recognize his achievements
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“The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.”
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“Book love, my friends, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.”
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“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”
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1880· 1 entry
Trollope moved to the village of South Harting in West Sussex
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1875· 1 entry
To help his son close down his failed farming business
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1871· 2 entries
When he sold his country home and travelled to Australia, but began hunting again when he returned to England in 1873, travelling into the countryside from London on the railway three times a week
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Trollope made his first trip to Australia, arriving in Melbourne on 28 July 1871 on the SS Great Britain, with his wife and their cook
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1868· 1 entry
Agreed to stand as a Liberal candidate in the borough of Beverley, in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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1865· 1 entry
Trollope was among the founders of the liberal Fortnightly Review
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1864· 1 entry
Trollope's brother-in-law, John Tilley, who was then Under-Secretary to the Postmaster General, was appointed to the vacant position
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1859· 2 entries
“Between 1859 and 1875, Trollope visited the United States five times. Among American literary men he developed a wide acquaintance, which included Lowell, Holmes, Emerson, Agassiz, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Bret Harte, Artemus Ward, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Henry James, William Dean Howells, James T. Fields, Charles Norton, John Lothrop Motley, and Richard Henry Dana Jr.”
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Sought and obtained a position in the Post Office as Surveyor to the Eastern District, comprising Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and most of Hertfordshire
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1857· 1 entry
Received an advance payment of £100 (about £9,800 in 2025 consumer pounds) against his share of the profits
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1855· 2 entries
(about £900 in 2025 consumer pounds), and £10 15s
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In an edition of 1,000 copies, with Trollope receiving half of the profits: £9 8s
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1851· 1 entry
Trollope was sent to England, charged with investigating and reorganising rural mail delivery in southwestern England and south Wales
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1846· 1 entry
And their second, Frederick James Anthony, in 1847
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1834· 1 entry
Fled to Belgium to avoid arrest for debt
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1831· 1 entry
And rapidly made a name for herself as a writer, soon earning a good income
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1830· 1 entry
Studied at Winchester College (1827–1830).
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1827· 1 entry
His mother, Frances Trollope, moved to America, to the Nashoba Commune in Tennessee, along with his three younger siblings
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1823· 1 entry
Studied at Harrow School (1823).
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1815· 1 entry
Born 1815-04-24.
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