Original Illustrations to Trollope's Novels

Scholarly Articles and Books

John Everett Millais, "Farewell", Orley Farm

• Ash, Russell. A full-page colour reproduction of Trust Me in Sir John Everett Millais. London: Pavilion, n.d, Plate 23. This painting has long been thought to be of Lady Mason and Sir Pergrine Orme in Orley Farm. The problem is there is no scene which corresponds to it: it shows an elderly man asking a mature woman for a letter which she places behind her back. Ash associates it with The Small House at Allington. There is no scene which corresponds there either; it is a scene which epitomises how people remember Trollope's novelstrollope.
• Bayley, John. 'Novels and Pictures', The Listener Review of Books, 105 (1980- 81), pp. 115-16. A review of N. John Hall's Trollope and His Illustrators (see directly below).
• Bradbrook, Frank W. 'N. John Hall's Trollope and His Illustrators, Notes and Queries, 29 (1980), pp. 252-54.
• Gresty, Hilary. 'Millais and Trollope, Author and Illustrator', The Book Collector, 30 (1981), pp. 43-61.
• Hall, N. John. 'Millais' Illustrations for Trollope', University of Pennsylvania Library Chronicle, 42 (1977), pp. 23-43.
• ———. Trollope and his Illustrators. New York: St Martin's Press, 1980. The best, indeed the only book-length study thus far of the original illustrations to Trollope's novels. Hall's study is valuable for its many reproductions of the original illustrations, for its analyses of these in the context of the facing text, and for the amount of information it pulls together about the original illustrations to Trollope's novels. However, it is marred by incompleteness: by no means are all the original illustrators clearly named, described nor the dates for the books given. He overvalues Millais and underrates the other illustrators whose work he judges by how closely theirs resembles Millais's; he dismisses the work of illustrators who do not come with a well- known name, without describing their work; he pronounces the illustrations of Henry Woods 'wretched'.
• Hemstedt, Geoffrey. 'Some Victorian Novels and their Illustrators', unpublished Ph.D. diss. Princeton University, 1971.
• Hennessy, James Pope. Anthony Trollope. Boston: Little and Brown, 1971. Hennessy includes a large number of the original book illustrations, and his choices are unusual so you can see pictures here you won't find in print elsewhere.
• Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. 'English Illustrators in the Collection of George Arents', The Colophon, 4 (1940), pp. 341-64. Contains a discussion and a number of reprints of the drawings of Marcus Stone and John Everett Millais for Trollope's novels.
• Life, Allan R. 'The Periodical Illustrations of John Everett Millais and Their Literary Interpretation', Victorian Periodicals Newsletter, 9 (1976), pp. 50-68.
• Markwick, Margaret. Trollope and Women. London: Hambledon Press, 1997. Markwick reprints 18 of the original illustrations to Trollope's novels which she argues reinforce her conclusions about Trollope's attitudes towards women in the novels.
• Mason, Michael. 'The Way We Look Now: Millais' Illustrations to Trollope', Art History, 1 (1978), pp. 309-40. An excellent study in which a number of Millais's illustrations are reprinted.
• McMaster, Juliet. Trollope's Palliser Novels: Theme and Pattern. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978. She studies the visual landscapes and dramatic imagery in the novels.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. The Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999. Chapter Six: 'The Original Illustrations for Trollope's Novels', pp. 127-55. My book includes a description, discussion and reproduction of the illustrations by Arthur Francis Fraser for The Golden Lion of Granpère, of Miss E. Taylor's illustrations for The Small House at Allington, Henry Wood's for , as well as commentary and reproduction of numbers of the more commonly discussed illustration of Millais, Edwards, Stone, Holl, and Fawkes. I also reprint 23 of the original illustrations to the novels, and discuss the various schools of illustration to which they variously belong.
• Morse, Deboarh Denenholz. Women in Trollope's Palliser Novels. London: Ann Arbor, 1997. Morse reprints a number of the original illustrations to the novels and discusses how the visualisation reflects and shapes a feminist interpretation of the books.
• Sadleir, Michael. Trollope: a bibliography. London: Dawson, 1928. This book tells the reader which books were originally illustrated, gives the caption and page of the specific early publication of the novels.
• ———. 'Luke Fildes', Time Literary Supplement, 5 April 1947, p. 157, and Hilda F. Finberg, Time Literary Supplement, 19 April 1947, p. 183.
• Skilton, David. 'The Relation between Illustration and Text in the Victorian Novel: A New Perspective', Word and Visual Imagination: Studies in the Interaction of English Literature and the Visual Arts, edd. Karl Josef Höltgen, Peter M. Daly and Wolfgang Lottes. Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1988, pp. 303-325.
• Stone, Marcus. The Illustrations for Our Mutual Friend which are reprinted in Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952. This is a rare easily available source for studying Stone's work.

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