Trollope
Trollope names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Trollope ANTHONY, an English novelist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ANTHONY, an English novelist; born in London, England, April 24, 1815; a younger son of Frances M. Trollope. He was educated at Harrow and Winchester; in 1834 became a clerk in the postoffice, and in 1841 was appointed clerk to a postoffice surveyor in Ireland. His Irish experiences gave him material for his first novels, "The Macdermots of Ballycloran" (1847), and the "Kellys and the O'Kellys" (1848), neither of which was successful. His first success was "The Warden" (1855); followed by "Barchester Towers" (1857); "Dr. Thorne" (1858); "The Bertrams" (1859); "Framley Parsonage" (1861); "The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" (1862); "Orley Farm" (1862); "The Last Chronicles of Barset" (1867); "Ralph the Heir" (1871); "The Way We Live Now" (1875); "The Prime Minister" (1876); "Marion Fay" (1882); "The Land- Leaguers" (1883); etc. He also published accounts of his travels, including "The West Indies and the Spanish Main" (1859); "Australia and New Zealand" (1873); "South Africa" (1878); besides a "Life of Cicero" (1881). He died in London, Dec. 6, 1882.
Trollope THOMAS ADOLPHUS, elder brother of Anthony
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
THOMAS ADOLPHUS, elder brother of Anthony; born April 29, 1810. He was a constant contributor to English periodicals, and was Italian correspondent of the New York "Tribune." Among his many books are: "A Summer in Brittany" (1840); "A Summer in Western France" (1841); "La Beata" (1861); "Marietta" (1862); "Beppo the Conscript" (1864); "Lindisfarn Chase" (1864); "History of the Commonwealth of Florence" (4 vols. 1865); "Dream Numbers" (1868); "A Siren" (1870); "Life of Pius IX." (1877); "Sketches from French History" (1878); "What I Remember" (1887-1889). He died in Clifton, England, Nov. 11, 1892.
Trollope FRANCES M., an English author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCES M., an English author; mother of Anthony; born near Bristol, England, in 1780. In 1829 she visited the United States, and afterward published a volume entitled "Domestic Manners of the Americans" (1831). She followed this with the novel "The Refugee in America" (1832). Among her other works are: "The Abbess" (1833); "Tremordyn Cliff" (1835); "The Barnabys in America" (1843); "Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman" (1854); and "Fashionable Life; or, Paris and London" (1856). She died in Florence, Italy, Oct. 6, 1863.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 introduces Anthony Trollope as "a younger son of Frances M. Trollope" efamily, whose "Domestic Manners of the Americans" was then still the household name; today the ranking is firmly reversed, and Frances is read chiefly as Anthony's mother. That reversal came with a full-scale Trollope revival: Michael Sadleir's "Trollope: A Commentary" (1927) began the rehabilitation of a novelist whose posthumous "An Autobiography" (1883), with its confession of writing to a word-quota by the clock, had cost him critical standing. The list above also underplays what is now prized nearly as highly as Barsetshire "The Prime Minister" appears with no hint that it belongs to the six-novel Palliser sequence, and the title is properly "The Last Chronicle of Barset". Trollope was finally given a memorial in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, in 1993, and the Barsetshire and Palliser books have been serialised for television.
Written for this edition, 2026.