Autobiographical and Biographical: Anthony, Frances Milton and Thomas Adolphus Trollope

Photograph of Thomas and Anthony Trollope, early 1860s

Autobiographies, Letters, Travel Books and Essays

• Trollope, Anthony. An Autobiography., ed. Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page, introduction and notes by P. D. Edwards. 1950; reprint Oxford, 1980.
• ———. The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. Bradford Allen Booth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951. This is a partial edition.
• ———. The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. N. John Hall. 2 vols. Stanford, 1983.
• ———. The West Indies and the Spanish Main, with an introduction by Fred D'Aguiar. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1999.
• ———. North America, edd., notes, introduced by Donald Smalley and Bradford Allen Booth. With illustrations from Contemporary Sources. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1951.
• ———. The Tireless Traveller: Twenty Letters to the Liverpool Mercury, 1875, edd., introduced by Bradford Allen Booth. 1941; reprint Berkeley: University of California, 1978.
• ———. Australia, edd., notes, introduced by P. D. Edwards and R. B. Joyce. Illustrated. Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1967.
• ———. South Africa, a reprint of the 1878 edition with an introduction and notes by J. H. Davidson. Cape Town: A. A. Balkema, 1973.
• ———. Trollope: The Traveller: Selections from Anthony Trollope's Travel Writings, ed., introduced by Graham Handley. Chicago: Elephant Paperbacks, 1995.
• Trollope, Fanny, The Domestic Manners of the Americans. London: Penguin, 1997.
• ———. Belgium and Eastern Germany in 1833. 2 Voumes. London: John Murray, 1833.
• ———. Paris and the Parisians in 1835. With illustrations by Hervieu. 2 volumes. London: Bentley, 1838.
• ———. Vienna and the Austrians . With illustrations by Hervieu. 2 volumes. London: Bentley, 1838.
• ———. A Visit to Italy. 2 volumes. London: Bentlyey, 1842.
• Trollope, Frances Eleanor. Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria . 2 volumes. London, 1895.
• Trollope, Thomas Adolphus. A Summer in Western France, edited by Frances Trollope. 2 Volumes. London, 1841.
• ———. What I Remember. 3 Volumes. London: Bentley, 1887.

From LaSalle Pickett, Across my Path: memories of people I have known, 1916.

Secondary Contemporary Literature on, by, related to the Trollopes

Contemporary Sources

• Davitt, Ellen. Force and Fraud. A Tale of the Bush, introd. Lucy Sussex. Canberra: Mulini Press 1993. Ellen Davitt was sister to Rose Heseltine Trollope.
• Escott, T. H. S. Anthony Trollope: His Public Services, Private Friends, and Literary Originals. 1913; reprint New York, 1967.
• Field, Kate. Pen Photographs of Charles Dickens's Readings : Taken from Life, ed. Carolyn J. Moss. 1871: reprinted by Whitston Publishers, 1998. As this is a difficult book to find because it does not put Field's name on the cover, I include the ISBN (0878754954) and "book description" from a review: Kate Field, a journalist, actress, and lecturer once referred to in the Washington Post as the "foremost woman in America," was so moved by Charles Dickens's readings in Boston and New York that she decided to write an account that would allow those unable to attend as close to the first-hand experience of seeing Dickens perform as possible. Her initial attempt in 1868, a 38-page pamphlet, proved to be so successful that she decided to expand it into a book, Pen Photographs. Her own narrative skills were impressive enough to allow readers the "virtual reality" of seeing Dickens perform. The book was published in the U.S. in 1871, and, despite its popularity, was reprinted. Few copies of the original are known to exist. Moss provides the original text and engravings, and a brief introduction. Pen photographs is a lively account, full of first-hand observation. The Dickens it presents is not the dark modern novelist of themes, topoi and hidden autobiography, but a sentimental, tearful, stand-up performer with the audience in the palm of his hand." For the Trollopian this book is important because it provides a rarely printed text by the woman with whom late in life Trollope wrote that he fell in love.
• Oliphant, Margaret. The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M. O. W. Oliphant, arranged and edited by Mrs Harry Coghill. New York, 1899. The letters between Oliphant and her publishers shed much light on the life of the commercial writer in the 19th century.
• Terry, R. C., ed. Trollope: Interviews and Recollections. New York: St Martin's Press, 1987.
• Trollope, Fanny. The Widow Barnaby. Alan Sutton, 1995.
• ———. The Vicar of Wrexhill. Alan Sutton, 1996.
• Trollope, Thomas. The Siren available online at Blackmask's
• Tuckerman, Henry T. America and Her Commentators, with a Critical Sketch of Travel in the United States. New York: Scribner's, 1864.

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Francis Trollope, Frontispiece, Domestic Manners, 6th edition

Modern Studies

• Aguirre, Robert. "Cold Print: Professing Authorship in Trollope's An Autobiography, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 25.4 (2002): 569-593.
• Akers, Brenda, ed. Frances Trollope and the Novel of Social Change. Greenwood Press, 2001.
• Bigland, Eileen. The Indomitable Mrs Trollope. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1954.
• Booth, Bradford Allen. Anthony Trollope: Aspects of His Life and Art. London: Edward Hutton, 1958.
• Brown, Sally. 'This So-Called Autobiography: Anthony Trollope, 1812-1882', The British Library Journal , 8 (1981), pp. 168-73.
• Dow, Hume, ed. Trollope's Australia. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1966.
• Edwards, P. D. Anthony Trollope's Son in Australia: The Life and Letters of F.J.A. Trollope (1847-1910). Brisbane, University of Queensland, 1982.
• Ekeblad, Inga-Stina. 'Anthony Trollope's Copy of the 1647 Beaumont and Fletcher Folio', Notes and Queries, 204 (1959), pp. 153-54.
• Ellis, Linda Abess. Frances Trollope's America: Four Novels. New York: Peter Lang, 1993.
• Epperly, Elizabeth R. 'Trollope Reading Old Drama', English Studies in Canada, 3 (1987), pp. 281-303.
• ———. Anthony Trollope's Notes on Old Drama. Victoria, Canada: University of Victoria, 1988.
• Gilead, Sarah. 'Trollope's Autobiography: The Strategies of Self-Production', Modern Language Quarterly, 47 (1986), pp. 272-90.
• Glendinning, Victoria. Anthony Trollope. New York, 1992.
• Hall, N. John. 'An Unpublished Manuscript on a Proposed History of World Literature', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 29 (1974), pp. 206-11.
• ———. 'Trollope Reading Aloud: An Unpublished Record', Notes and Queries, 220 (1975), pp. 117-18.
• ———. 'Seeing Trollope's An Autobiography Through the Press: The Correspondence of Willam Blackwood and Henry Merivale Trollope, Princeton University Library Chronicle, 47 (1986), pp. 189-223.
• ———. Trollope: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. This is the best biography of Anthony Trollope in print.
• Halperin, John, ed. Trollope: Centenary Essays. New York, 1982.
• Hamer, Mary. 'Forty Letters of Anthony Trollope', The Yearbook of English Studies, 3 (1973), pp. 206-15.
• Handley, Graham. 'An Opus for my Old Age', Trollopiana, 34 (1996), pp. 10-17.
• Hawes, Derek. 'Was Trollope a Freemason', Trollopiana, 47 (1999), pp. 14-22.
• ———. 'Why Trollope Was not a Crook', Trollopiana, 51 (2000), pp. 14-23.
• Heineman, Helen. Mrs Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Athens, Ohio, 1979. This is the best biography of Fanny Trollope thus far.
• ———. Frances Trollope. Boston: Twayne, 1984.
• ———. Restless Angels: The Friendship of Six Victorian Women. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1983.
• Hennessey, James Pope. Anthony Trollope. Boston, 1971.
• Humphrey, Susan L. 'Order--Method: Trollope Learns to Write', Dickens Studies Annual, 8 (1980), pp. 251-71.
• Johnston, Joahanna. The Life, Manners and Travels of Fanny Trollope: A Biography. New York: Hawthorne, 1978.
• Kimball, Roger. 'A Novelist Who Hunted the Fox', Trollopiana, 26 (1994), pp. 16-29.
• Kincaid, James R. 'Trollope's Fictional Autobiography', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 37 (1982), pp. 340-49.
• Kissel, Susan S. In Common Cause: the "conservative" Frances Trollope and the "radical" Frances Wright. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993.
• Lawrence Jay Dessner, Lawrence Jay. 'The Autobiographical Matrix of Trollope's The Bertrams', Nineteenth-Century Literature, 45 (1989), pp. 25-38.
• McDermott, John Francis. 'Mrs Trollope's Illustrator: August Herveiu in America (`1827-1831), Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1958, pp. 169-90.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the 'Net. London: Hambledon Press & The Trollope Society, 1999. Chapter 8: Trollope's An Autobiography, pp. 181-200.
• Muir, Marcie. Anthony Trollope in Australia. Adelaide: The Wakefield Press, 1949.
• Mullen, Richard. Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World. Savannah: Frederic D. Beil, 1990. This book is valuable for its depiction of Trollope's era and Mullen's discussions of the non-fictional work particularly.
• ——— and James Munson. The Penguin Companion to Trollope. London: Penguin, 1996. This contains much autobiographical information on the other Trollopes too.
• Neville-Sington, Pamela. 'He Is Now No More: Trollope's Brother, Henry', Trollopiana, 31 (1995), pp. 10-20.
• ———. Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman. London: Viking, 1997.
• Nisbet, Ada B. "Mrs Trollope's Domestic Manners, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 4:4 (1950): 319-24.
• Pease, William H. and Jane H. Pease, 'A New View of Nashoba', Tennessee Historical Quarterly, 19 (1960), pp. 99-109.
• Ransom, Teresa. Fanny Trollope: A Remarkable Life. New York, 1995. This book is valuable for its thorough and excellent plot summaries, descriptions and commentaries on the novels, and for the reprints of important vivid historical documentation of Fanny's trip to the US.
• Sadleir, Michael. Trollope: A Bibliography. Kent: Dawson, 1928.
• ———. Trollope: A Commentary. 1945; reprint London, 1961.
• Smalley, Donald. "Henry Trollope: Poems in America," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 4:4 (1950): 251-63.
• Swinson, Antonia. 'The Cunard Connection', Trollopiana, 50 (2000), pp. 15-22.
• Snow, C. P. Trollope: An Illustrated Biography. New York: Amsterdam, 1975.
• Stebbins, Lucy and Richard Poate. The Trollopes: Chronicle of a Writing Family. New York, 1945. Still one of the best books on the family as a whole.
• Super, R. H. Trollope in the Post Office. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981.
• ———. The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.
• ———. 'Truth and Fiction in Trollope's Autobiography, Nineteenth-Century Literature, 48 (1993), pp. 74-88.
• Sussex, Lucy, "The Case of the Missing Sister-in-Law," Trollopiana, 50 (2000).
• Taylor, Robert H. 'Letters to Trollope', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 1 (September 1946), pp. 5-9.
• ———. 'The Trollopes Write to Bentley (Part One), Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 3 (1947), pp. 83-98, 201-14.
• Terry, R. C. A Trollope Chronology. London, 1989.
• Sutherland, John. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. This sheds much light on Trollope's life as a writer and his relationships with his publishers.
• ———. 'Trollope and St Paul's 1866-70', Anthony Trollope, ed. Tony Bareham. Towota, New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 116-37.
• ———. 'Trollope, Publishers and the Truth',Prose Studies, 10 (1987), pp. 239-47.
• Sutherland, John. 'Flying the Coop', a review of Pamela Neville- Sington's Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman, London Review of Books (February 1988), pp. 11-12.
• Super, R. H. 'A Review Essay: Modern Scholarship on the Trollopes', Modern Language Studies, 16, No 3 (1986), pp. 337-341. A biased and ill-tempered piece which accuses Helen Heineman of ignorance because Super doesn't like what she has to say. I include it because he cites recent material about Trollope's family members and has written one of the four recent major biographies of Trollope in the last decade.
• ———. 'Trollope's Lives', Trollopiana, 20 (1993), pp. 6-14.
• Tracy, Robert. 'Stranger than Truth: Fictional Autiobgraphy and Autobiographical Fiction', Dickens Studies Annual, 15 (1986), pp. 275-89.
• Walpole, Hugh. Anthony Trollope. New York, 1928.

• Cockshut, A. O. J. Truth to Life: The Art of Biography in the Nineteenth Century. London: Collins, 1974.
• ———. The Art of Autobiography in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century England. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
• Conway, Jill Ker. When Memory Speaks: Exploring the Art of Autobiography. New York: Vintage, 1998.
• Delany, Paul. British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969.
• Furbank, P.N. 'A Craft, Not an Art: The Modest but Practical Uses of Biography', Times Literary Supplement, 15 January 1999, p. 14 ('Autobiography is decidedly one of the arts').
• Richard Holmes, Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985.
• Landow, George P., ed., Approaches to Victorian Autobiography. Athens, Ohio, 1979. See especially Avrom Fleishman, 'Personal Myth: Three Victorian Autobiographers', pp. xxxv-xli, 215-20.
• Meyers, Jeffrey, ed. The Craft of Literary Biography. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
• Miller, J. Hillis. The Ethics of Reading. New York, 1987.
• Morris, John N. Versions of the Self. London, 1966.
• Pascal, Roy. Design and Truth in Autobiography. 1960; reprint New York, 1985.
• Peterson, Linda H. Victorian Autobiography: The Tradition of Self-Interpretation. London, 1986.
• Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976.

Rose Trollope, Anthony Trollope's wife, one of two extant photographs

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