Bibliographies and Companions and Handbooks

Waltham House, Waltham Cross, Essex where Anthony and Rose Trollope lived from 1859-1871, with Barney, Trollope's long-time Irish servant, by the gate
Handbooks and Companions

• Edwards, P. D. Anthony Trollope: His Art and Scope. St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1977. This is so good it is the equivalent of a superb handbook. Edwards discusses every novel sensibly and intelligently; it is highly recommended for anyone seeking a critical single book on Trollope's art.
• Gerould, Winifred Gregory and James Thayer Gerould. A Guide to Trollope. Drawings by Florence W. Ewing. Princeton: Princeton University Press,1948. A very useful handbook which lists just about every character, place and street that occurs in Trollope; all the fictions with brief plot summary and includes maps, plus classifications of the novels.
• Hardwick, Michael. The Osprey Guide to Anthony Trollope. Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1974. This is very poor; I list it because it is inexpensive and readily available from used bookstores sites,and for the sake of completeness as the fourth of the handbooks on Trollope's novels. It consists of half-hearted summaries of the stories of Trollope's novels and an incomplete listing of the characters with quotations from the novels about them that seemed to Hardwick apposite.
• Mullen, Richard and James Munson. The Penguin Companion to Trollope. New York: Penguin, 1996; republished by the Trollope Society. A superb companion when it comes to plot information and information about the era; Mullen knows the fiction and the non-fiction and much about Trollope's life and conscious opinions intimately.
• Olmstead, John Charles, compiler. A Victorian Art of Fiction: Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals, 1830-1850. 3 Volumes. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1979. This extraordinary compilation includes important critical essays on great and minor fiction of the period and the art of fiction in general by working novelists, scholars and critics of the period, both familiar and unfamiliar; it moves from Jane Austen to Walter Bagehot on 'The Waverley Novels', from Leslie Stephens on Richardson's novels to R. L. Stevenson, 'A Gossip on Romance'. There are excellent introductions at the beginning of each volume; it also includes Trollope's critical essay, 'Novel-Reading' which first appeared in Mem>Nineteenth Century, 5 (January 1879), pp. 24-43 (Vol 3, pp. 109-30), and essays on Trollope's fiction by Richard Holt Hutton, on realism by G. H. Lewes (an essay written with fiction like Trollope's in mind). It is essential context, a handbook on the art and fiction and attitudes towards these for Trollope's period.
• Terry, R. C., ed. Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope. Oxford University Press, 1999. This book places the reader in a twentieth century critical context and shows the modernity of Trollope's fiction; it includes brilliant essays of analyses on the novels from different superb critics and scholars. It also contains good essays on matters which give cultural and sociological and political context. It is weak on characters, and lesser known aspects of Trollope's non-fiction.
• ———. A Trollope Chronology. London, 1989. This book places just about every single external event in Trollope's life and publication record that may be documented in a brief concise format.
• Vann, J. Don. Victorian Novels in Serial. New York: Modern Language Association of New York, 1985. This book includes detailed explanatory analyses of the divisions of many of the best- known novels published during Trollope's era. For Trollope the reader will find the instalment and earliest volumed divisions for 34 of his novels and novellas, from Framley Parsonage through to The Landleaguers. This is an extremely useful book.
• Wheeler, Michael. English Fiction of the Victorian Period, 1830-1890. London and New York: Longman, 1985. As well as providing an excellent critical analysis of the novels of this period which sets them in their social, political and autobiographical contexts, this book contains an extensive and superb bibliography of books for the period, most of which are relevant to Anthony Trollope's work and life.

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Montagu Square, south of Marylebone Road, London, which Trollope knew from his childhood and where he lived again from 1873-1880: he was a Londoner. "Not a gorgeous neighborhood, but one which will suit my declining years and modest resources."

Bibliographies and Lists

• ap Roberts, Ruth. 'Anthony Trollope': A Bibliographical Essay', Victorian Fiction: A Second Guide to Research, ed. by George H. Ford. New York: The Modern Language Association, 1978. An excellent assessment of the critical literature and reprints of older secondary literature from 1962 to 1978. It includes further bibliographies (with descriptions of their contents).
• De Laura, David J, ed. Victorian Prose: A Guide to Research. New York: Modern Language Association, 1973. While the focus is on non-fictional prose, many of the themes and subjects given sources for are directly relevant to Trollope's writing (Carlyle, Oxford Movement, Victorian churches &c).
• Dobree, Bonamy and E. C. Batho. The Victorians and After: Literary History and Bibliography, 1830-1914, with a chapter on economics by Guy Chapman. New York: McBridge, 1938. Of interest for studying Trollope's reputation as well as the way the Victorian period was regarded before World War Two.
• Heineman, Helen. Mrs Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1979. This book contains a long and thorough-going bibliography at its close.
• Helling, Rafael. A Century of Trollope Criticism. Helingsfors: Centralryckeriet, 1956. This was originally doctoral dissertation, and is also listed by Associated Faculty Press. It's thorough and good.
• Hall, N. John, 'Introduction' to The Trollope Critics, ed. N. John Hall. New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1987, pp. vii-xxix. This is a discussion and listing of all the early editions of Trollope's novels plus some brief commentaries on the best secondary books on Trollope's fiction.
• Irwin, Mary Leslie. Anthony Trollope. New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. A list of early editions and early reviews and criticism, illustrations, imaginary maps, manuscripts, lecture.
• Kincaid, James R. The Novels of Anthony Trollope. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977. This book contains a well-chosen selective bibliography at its end. It includes a list of books which contain remarks on Trollope's art and attitudes by contemporaries and respected late 19th and early 20th century writers which are more accurate and respectful of the man than some of what is sometimes assumed today.
• Lyons, Anne, compiler. Anthony Trollope: An Annotated Bibliography of Periodical Works by & about Him in the United States and Great Britain to 1900. Greenwood, Florida: Penkeville Publishing Company, 1985.
• MacDonald, Susan Peck. Anthony Trollope. Boston: Twayne, 1987. In the manner of the Twayne books, this includes a good if brief annotated bibiography in the back.
• Olmstead, John Charles and Jeffrey Egan Welch. The Reputation of Trollope: An Annotated Bibliography, 1925-1975. New York: Garland Publishing, 1978. An important resource which contains much early material and commentary on the singletons as well as the series.
• Sadleir, Michael. Trollope: a bibliography. Folkstone, England: Wm Dawson & Sons, 1928. An essential tool for anyone who wants to study Trollope's works.
• Skilton, David. Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Conventions of Mid-Victorian Fiction. London: Macmillan, 1996. This includes a longish bibliography of contemporary British articles on Trollope's fiction and in which periodicals they may be found.
• Smalley, Donald, 'Anthony Trollope', Victorian Fiction: A Guide to Research, ed. Lionel Stevenson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1964. Not outdated. It includes good critical comments and a bibliographical essay.
• Stebbins, Lucy Poate and Richard Poate Stebbins. The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family . New York: Columbia University Press, 1945. There is an extensive descriptive bibliography of important primary materials for the Trollope family (including what near contemporaries wrote about the Trollopes) at the back of this intelligent book.
• Stone, Donald, 'Trollope Studies, 1976-1981', Dickens Studies Annual, 11 (1982), pp. 313-33. Excellent and sensitive discussion.
• Tingay, Lance, compiler. Anthony Trollope: A Collector's Catalogue, 1847-1990. London: The Trollope Society, 1992. Indispensable for its listings of early and recent editions and sets and its long bibliography from the late 19th century to 1990.

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