Anthony Trollope

Andrew Maunder (University of Hertfordshire)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

Dates

Born 24 Apr 1815
Died 6 Dec 1882
Activity 1835-1882

Places

Born in England
Active in England

Genres and Modes

Sketch

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Other

Essayist
Playwright / Dramatist
Travel writer

Resources

Trollope's Works

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Anthony Trollope was born in London on 24 April 1815 to Thomas Anthony Trollope (1774-1835) and Frances Milton (1779-1863). His father, who suffered from depression, failed both as a lawyer and as a farmer. As he explains in his

Autobiography

(published posthumously in 1883) the family's subsequent poverty made the young schoolboy Trollope feel humiliated, miserable and resentful of the rigid social hierarchy in Harrow and Winchester. When the family's financial troubles became overwhelming the Trollopes moved to Belgium. Later, in one of a number of abortive money-making schemes, Frances Trollope took her three youngest children to America to set up a department store in the city of New Harmony, Memphis, leaving Anthony behind with his father. Mrs Trollope's scheme collapsed and she…

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Citation: Maunder, Andrew. "Anthony Trollope". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=4457, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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