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Anthony Trollope

  

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Anthony Trollope : Caesar

'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar' I cannot read without laughing - it is so like Johnny Eames.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Margaret Oliphant      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : 

[According to Flora Thompson], "Modern writers who speak of the booklessness of the poor at that time must mean books as possessions...there were always books to borrow"... One could borrow Pamela and the Waverley novels from a neighbour, Christies Old Organ from the Sunday School library. Her uncle, a shoemaker, had once carted home from a country-house auction a large collection of books that no-one would buy: novels, poetry, sermons, histories, dictionaries. She read him Cranford while he worked in his shop... Later she could borrow from her employer (the village postmistress) Shakespeare and Byron's Don Juan, as well as Jane Austen, Dickens and Trollope from the Mechanics' Institute library.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Flora Thompson      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : unknown

'Probably the last letter ... [Anthony Trollope] wrote, before his fatal stroke in 1882, was to express pleasure on learning that Cardinal Newman read his novels.'

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Cardinal John Henry Newman      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Autobiography

Henry James to Thomas Sergeant Perry, 25 November 1883: 'I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and soddenness.'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : unknown

'... [J. M.] Barrie's secretary wrote, "One of his great solaces was Anthony Trollope, whom, like many others, he rediscovered after the First World War."'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Matthew Barrie      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : unknown

'Relishing the part of iconoclast, ... [Sir Walter Raleigh] wrote [to Miss C. A. Kerr] in 1905 [15 April], after lying abed reading Trollope, "I'm afraid it's no use anyone telling me that Thackeray is a better novelist than Trollope."'

Century:      Reader/Listener/Group: Sir Walter Raleigh      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : 

'My husband, reading for the first time, one of the first books of Anthony Trollope, thought he perceived a considerable resemblance in that writer to Mr Gilfil and the Rev. Amos Barton - but I will not ask you whether that guess edges upon the truth.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Frank Oliphant      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Autobiography

Henry James to Thomas Seregant Perry, 25 November 1883: "Yes, I have read Trollope's autobiography and regard it as one of the most curious and amazing books in all literature, for its density, blockishness and general thickness and soddenness."

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry James      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Orley Farm

'Read the "Cornhill" and "Orley Farm", as distraction under a bad headache'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: George Eliot [pseud]      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Orley Farm

This evening Charley has read to us the 12th No. of "Orley Farm", which is interesting so far as it pursues the main path of the story - the fortunes of Lady Mason'.

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Lewes      Print: Serial / periodicalManuscript: Unknown

  

Anthony Trollope : Last Chronicle of Barset

J. H. Ewing diary entry: 'Last Chronicle of Barset'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Juliana Horatia Ewing      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : [unknown]

'As I began to mend, the Governor, to keep me from brooding too much, gave orders that I was to have all the reading matter I wanted within the limits of the prison library, and my book changed just as often as I liked and at any hour of the day. To a man eager to improve his acquaintance with standard literature such a privilege was immeasurably great, and for the next six weeks or so I browsed among the Victorian novelists - Austin [sic?], the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot, Meredith, Lytton, Kingsley, Reade, Hughes, Trollope and others.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Stuart Wood [pseud?]      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Framley Parsonage

'I extremely like & admire Framley Parsonage, - & the Idle Boy; and the Inaugural address. I like Lovel the Widower, only (perhaps because I am stupid,) it is a little confusing on account of its discursiveness, - and V's verses; and oh shame! I have not read the sensible & improving articles.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Anthony Trollope : Framley Parsonage

'I wish Mr Trollope would go on writing Framley Parsonage for ever. I don't see any reason why it should ever come to an end, and every one I know is always dreading the [italics] last [end italics] number. I hope he will make the jilting of Griselda a long while a-doing.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Anthony Trollope : [unknown]

'Father was well read in politics and in the nineteenth century novelists, Dickens and Trollope being his favourites. But his reading nourished the sour scepticism that possesed him [and he suggested to Glasser that reading was a waste of time]'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Mr Glasser      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : West Indies

'In the evening read a little of Antony Trollope's West Indies '

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Unknown

  

Anthony Trollope : The Vicar of Bullhampton

'Sent Julia to church with the children & stopped at home myself & read a new Book of Trollope's, "The Vicar of Bullhampton", much the same sort of Book as Trollope's books always are'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: John Buckley Castieau      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : 

'Since the age of five I have been a great reader [...]. At ten years of age I had read much of Victor Hugo and other romantics. I had read in Polish and in French, history, voyages, novels; I knew "Gil Blas" and "Don Quixote" in abridged editions; I had read in early boyhood Polish poets and some French poets, but I cannot say what I read on the evening [in September 1889] before I began to write myself. I belive it was a novel, and it is quite possible that it was one of Anthony Trollope's novels.It is very likely.My acquaintance with him was then very recent. He is one of the English novelists whose works I read for the first time in English. With men of European reputation, with Dickens and Walter Scott and Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was "Nicholas Nickleby". It was extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickleby could chatter disconnectedly in Polish [...] It was, I have no doubt an excellent translation. This must have been in the year 1870.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Doctor Thorne

'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Stansfield      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Prime Minister, The

'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Howard R. Smith      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Warden, The

'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Reginald Robson      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Three Clerks, The

'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victoriann writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : 

'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victorian writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Henry Marriage Wallis      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : 

'The rest of the evening was devoted to Anthony Trollope. C.E. Stansfield read an amusing passage from Dr Thorne. H.M. Wallis gave us a full & racy sketch of Trollopes life interspersed with short extracts from his works illustrative of his love of Fox hunting & his broad grasp of the social life of English upper class & clerical life. H.R. Smith read from "The Prime Minister" & F.E. Pollard gave a short appreciation of Trollopes work from which it appeared that he was not quite in the first rank of Victorian writers, he does not attempt the greatest problems but he does quite perfectly the job he sets out to do; his pictures of life are real his, [sic] characters are not mere puppets but are all alive. R.H. Robson read from the Warden & F.E. Pollard from "the three Clerks" bringing to a conclusion a delightful evening in which many renewed old acquaintances whilst others were introduced to much that was new to them.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Francis Pollard      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Phineas Redeux

'Took the morning training from Euston to Carlisle, arriving at 4.30. Read Phineas Redeux all the way.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: James Lees-Milne      

  

Anthony Trollope : The Way We Live Now

'I have just finished The Way of the World; there is only one person in it , no there are three — who are nice: the wild American woman, and two of the dissipated young men, Dolly and Lord Niddersdale. All the heroes and heroines are just ghastly. But what a triumph is Lady Carbury! That is real, sound, strong, genuine work: the man who could do that if he had had courage , might have written a fine book; he has preferred to write very readable ones.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Louis Stevenson      Print: Book

  

Anthony Trollope : Phineas Finn: The Irish Member

'I read with the greatest pleasure what you say about Trollope. I made his acquaintance full thirty years ago and made up my mind about his value then, as a writer of remarkable talent for imaginative rendering of the social life of his time, with its activities and interests and incipient thoughts.[ ...] I was considerably impressed with them [The "Palliser" novels] in the early eighties when I chanced upon a novel entitled "Phineas Finn". Haven't seen them since, to tell you the truth [...]'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Conrad      Print: Book

  

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