The complete online text of Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope.

The English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) wrote a series of novels that chronicle the everyday life of middle-class Victorians. Quietly humorous and at times satirical, his works reveal the vigorous and modest good nature of their author. After t...

"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 (1883). No one has ever been able to deny him that claim: as the author...

"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 has ever been able to deny him that claim: as the autho...

Trollope's An Autobiography is an anomaly, a work of self-representation best known for its frank view of the literary marketplace: "Brains that are unbought will never serve the public much" (107). (1) Such disquieting candor has led critics to posit not one autobiography...

LATE last month the governor of the Bank of England, Robin Leigh Pemberton, made an impressive appearance at the Reform Club. The distinguished audience of 150 were not bankers, but members of the Trollope Society. The society is a newcomer to the literary...