'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matters she describes with the most juvenile warmth and impetuosity'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832:
'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs
Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...]
Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the
passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder
discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837:
'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the
extracts I have seen from it! -- What a lamentable book -- & to be written by a woman -- who
from the weakness & softness of her nature should so feel the need & the beauty of that
strength & surpassing tenderness found in the religion of Jesus Christ, & only there! -- It is
very ill to hold up to scorn the most unsecular portion of the Church of England -- but to do so
by misrepresen[ta]tion & perversion is most ill! [goes on to complain further regarding
representation of religious characters, and quotation from Scripture, in text]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840:
'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an
undeniable cleverness, is dull & heavy [...] As to "One fault", with neither dulness nor
heaviness, the book seems to [italics]me[end italics] far less clever than Mrs Trollope's books
generally or always are [goes on to discuss aspects of this text, including plot, further]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841:
'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very clever -- and besides I want you to send me
the little key which belongs to the personalities. Who is Lady Dort? -- & Mrs Stewart Gardiner?
Who is the painter? It is very clever -- good for its bad class!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842:
'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Belles -- and so far as I can guess at Mrs
Trollope's people [...] I should say that Lady Dort was Mrs Skinner of Portland Place -- who is
really quite as absurd if not more so [goes on to identify possible originals of other characters
in text]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842:
'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying.
But I do wonder whether the [italics]educated[end italics] quakers make use of
[italics]Thee[end italics] in the nominative case -- whether they make use of such execrable
grammar (for instance) as "Thee bee'st". I never heard a quaker talk, and yet I cd scarcely
wonder or doubt at all about it, if I did not observe that Capt. Marryat & Mrs Trollope & other
writers of at least supposed education, represent their quakers always talking so.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842:
'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do you know I could have been obstinate in
my self-persuasion that I had returned to you Mrs Trollope's letter & here it is in my writing
basket. And all this while I have been rewarding you for your kindness in letting me see it
[...] & keeping you from sending your answer, by my carelessness.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Letter
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843:
'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Hargrave. She has great skill in the
construction of a story & shows it here; although I do not think that otherwise & generally, the
work is of her cleverest.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generations ago are illustrated cheerfully in its pages." "Read again, with the same amusement, in the winter of 1927-8". Vol.II p.137: "The whole novel is burlesque. It is to me, as it was to my mother, uncle [Lord Macaulay], and to my sister Margaret, supremely and singularly readable. Dec 5 1927 Welcombe"
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and reread, by many Macaulays and Trevelyans. June 9 1928". With a note by this in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "Only nine weeks before he died."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
"Read June 19 1947".
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Charles Philips Trevelyan Print: Book
