"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...

"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...

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 and annuals regularly commissioned Christmas stories...

As Bradford Allen Booth points out in his introduction to The Tireless Traveler, "The casual reader, glancing over Trollope's bibliography, probably overlooks the twelve [sic] titles of biography, essays and travels, for the world has refused to accept...

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...