42 Facts About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era.

Anthony Trollope wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters.

Anthony Trollope was the son of barrister Thomas Anthony Trollope and the novelist and travel writer Frances Milton Trollope.

Anthony Trollope suffered much misery in his boyhood, owing to the disparity between the privileged background of his parents and their comparatively meagre means.

Anthony Trollope then returned to Harrow as a day-boy to reduce his education costs.

Anthony Trollope sought refuge in daydreams, constructing elaborate imaginary worlds.

In 1827, his mother, Frances Anthony Trollope, moved to America, to the Nashoba Commune, along with Anthony Trollope's three younger siblings.

Thomas Trollope joined them for a short time before returning to the farm at Harrow, but Anthony stayed in England throughout.

Anthony Trollope's mother returned in 1831 and rapidly made a name for herself as a writer, soon earning a good income.

Anthony Trollope gave up his legal practice entirely and failed to make enough income from farming to pay rent to his landlord, Lord Northwick.

In Belgium, Anthony Trollope was offered a commission in an Austrian cavalry regiment.

Anthony Trollope hated his job, but saw no alternative and lived in constant fear of dismissal.

Anthony Trollope took up fox hunting, which he would pursue enthusiastically for the next three decades.

At the watering place of Dun Laoghaire, Anthony Trollope met Rose Heseltine, the daughter of a Rotherham bank manager.

Anthony Trollope began writing on the numerous long train trips around Ireland he had to take to carry out his postal duties.

Anthony Trollope wrote his earliest novels while working as a Post Office inspector, occasionally dipping into the "lost-letter" box for ideas.

In 1851, Anthony Trollope was sent to England, charged with investigating and reorganising rural mail delivery in southwestern England and south Wales.

Anthony Trollope describes this time as "two of the happiest years of my life".

In late 1859, Anthony Trollope learned of preparations for the release of the Cornhill Magazine, to be published by George Murray Smith and edited by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Anthony Trollope wrote to the latter, offering to provide short stories for the new magazine.

Anthony Trollope offered Smith Castle Richmond, which he was then writing; but Smith declined to accept an Irish story, and suggested a novel dealing with English clerical life as had Barchester Towers.

Anthony Trollope then devised the plot of Framley Parsonage, setting it near Barchester so that he could make use of characters from the Barsetshire novels.

Postal history credits Anthony Trollope with introducing the pillar box in the United Kingdom.

Anthony Trollope was earning a substantial income from his novels.

Anthony Trollope had overcome the awkwardness of his youth, made good friends in literary circles, and hunted enthusiastically.

In 1865, Anthony Trollope was among the founders of the liberal Fortnightly Review.

Anthony Trollope applied for Tilley's old post but was passed over in favour of a subordinate, Frank Ives Scudamore.

Anthony Trollope had long dreamt of taking a seat in the House of Commons.

Anthony Trollope described his period of campaigning in Beverley as "the most wretched fortnight of my manhood".

Anthony Trollope wrote a travel book focusing on his experiences in the US during the American Civil War titled North America.

In 1871, Anthony 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.

Anthony Trollope wrote his novel Lady Anna during the voyage.

Anthony Trollope visited the penal colony of Port Arthur and its cemetery, Isle of the Dead.

On his return, Anthony Trollope published a book, Australia and New Zealand.

Anthony Trollope returned to Australia in 1875 to help his son close down his failed farming business.

Anthony Trollope found that the resentment created by his accusations of bragging remained.

In 1880, Anthony Trollope moved to the village of South Harting in West Sussex.

Anthony Trollope spent some time in Ireland in the early 1880s researching his last, unfinished, novel, The Landleaguers.

Anthony Trollope died in Marylebone, London, in 1882 and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, near the grave of his contemporary, Wilkie Collins.

Anthony Trollope made it clear that he disliked Trollope's narrative method; Trollope's cheerful interpolations into his novels about how his storylines could take any twist their author wanted did not appeal to James's sense of artistic integrity.

Anthony Trollope's [Trollope's] great, his inestimable merit was a complete appreciation of the usual.

Anthony Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy, though not one of the most eloquent, of the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself.