Anthony Trollope Summary

Biography Essay"I do lay claim to whatever merit should be accorded to me for persevering diligence in my profession," Anthony Trollope wrote in one of the concluding paragraphs of An Autobiography (... Read more

"I do lay claim to whatever merit should be accorded to me for persevering diligence in my profession," Anthony Trollope wrote in one of the concluding paragraphs of his Autobiography (1883). No one h... Read more

For the Victorian audience, the Christmas tale represented one of the most popular and widespread types of short fiction. Acting under the ubiquitous influence of Charles Dickens, various periodicals ... Read more

In the following essay, Johnston assesses Trollope's portrayal of members of the clergy in his Irish novels, and maintains that Trollope's views regarding both Irish Catholic and Irish A... Read more

In the following essay, Super reviews the exaggerations and inaccuracies in Trollope's An Autobiography, and contends that despite the faulty facts in the work, Trollope's vision remains... Read more

In the following essay, Thompson investigates the way in which Victorian conceptions of gender influenced the way Trollope's work was reviewed by his contemporaries. “We state our opi... Read more

In the following essay, Johnston appraises Trollope's political philosophy, particularly his concern for the problems of the poor, as it is revealed in Trollope's first novel, The Macder... Read more

In the following essay, Riffaterre examines Trollope's use of metonymy, demonstrating that metonymies in Trollope's novels are primarily comic devices used for descriptive purposes. This... Read more

In the following essay, originally presented as a lecture in 1982, Taylor compares the women in Trollope's novels to the female characters in the works of other male writers. The Victorian a... Read more

In the following essay, Stone provides an overview of the short fiction of Anthony Trollope. Anthony Trollope's stories constitute a substantial and substantially ignored portion of his prod... Read more

The following essay is a review of Betty Jane Breyer's edition of The Complete Short Stories. In it, Navakas finds Trollope's stories of interest primarily for their relationship to his ... Read more

In the following review of the fourth volume of Betty Jane Breyer's edition of The Complete Short Stories, Letwin argues that the female characters in Trollope's short fiction defy stere... Read more

In the following essay, Thompson observes that, although the short story form was not amenable to Trollope's talents as a writer, his tales are nevertheless "lucid, sinewy exercises in t... Read more

In the following essay, Sutherland surveys the stories that were originally collected in An Editor's Tales and Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Sories, placing them in the context ... Read more

In the following assessment of Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Tales, the anonymous reviewer praises Trollope for the "diagnostic of the true significance of various little nuanc... Read more

In the essay below, Hampden recounts the genesis and initial publication of "The Two Heroines of Plumplington," and examines the story's relationship to Trollope's Barsetsh... Read more

In the following excerpt, Pollard contends that Trollope's short stories generally lack focus and intensity. He does note some exceptions, however, particularly "Malachi's Cove.&#... Read more

In the following essay, Stone argues that the realism and anti-romanticism of the stories in the first series of Tales of All Countries paradoxically reflect Trollope's "own deeply roman... Read more

In the following essay, Aguirre probes the relationship between the writer, authorial identity, and the realities of the literary marketplace with regard to Anthony Trollope's An Autobiography.... Read more