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 …
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 12 April 2021.]
Articles on Trollope's Works
- An Eye for An Eye
- Barchester Towers
- Castle Richmond
- Framley Parsonage
- He Knew He Was Right
- Miss Mackenzie
- Phineas Finn, the Irish Member
- Ralph the Heir
- The American Senator
- The Bertrams
- The Duke's Children
- The Eustace Diamonds
- The Kellys and O'Kellys; or Landlords and Tenants
- The Landleaguers
- The Last Chronicle of Barset
- The Macdermots of Ballycloran: A Historical Romance
- The Prime Minister
- The Small House at Allington
- The Warden
- The Way We Live Now