Anthony Trollope
by Victoria Glendinning
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"Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field."Tags
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Being in the middle of binge reading of Anthony Trollope, this biography helped greatly in establishing a memorable perception of the man and the phenomenon of his life's experience.
This biography is an award winner, and fulfils the need for a thorough Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries review of his life and times. The book never lags nor become bogged in any particular detail about Trollope's busy, productive life.
His boyhood and adolescence was neglectful and dispiriting. He had the misfortune to attend Harrow and Winchester Schools. His father was inept, depressive and indebted through mindless investment.
Trollope got one good break. Through connections, he was taken on by the fledgling Post Office as an Assistant Surveyor and show more posted to Ireland. From this point his star was given birth, and through a disciplined work ethic, a great writing as well as a Public Service career, took form.
Victoria Glendinning has written a biography of a lovable man; one where with the passage of time puts a new lustre on a writer who has given so much pleasure to his readers down the intervening ages. show less
This biography is an award winner, and fulfils the need for a thorough Twentieth and Twenty First Centuries review of his life and times. The book never lags nor become bogged in any particular detail about Trollope's busy, productive life.
His boyhood and adolescence was neglectful and dispiriting. He had the misfortune to attend Harrow and Winchester Schools. His father was inept, depressive and indebted through mindless investment.
Trollope got one good break. Through connections, he was taken on by the fledgling Post Office as an Assistant Surveyor and show more posted to Ireland. From this point his star was given birth, and through a disciplined work ethic, a great writing as well as a Public Service career, took form.
Victoria Glendinning has written a biography of a lovable man; one where with the passage of time puts a new lustre on a writer who has given so much pleasure to his readers down the intervening ages. show less
Glendinning does a superb job of writing a highly readable and exciting biography of Trollope. Would you expect a life of Anthony Trollope to be riveting? Glendinning makes it so. Her insights into the zeitgeist and how Trollope fits into it are superb.
Excellently written, the author brings to life Anthony Trollope, his life and times, and weaves his feelings and his books cleverly together.
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Trollope is a more inventive and mischievous writer than Glendinning allows. This, though, is not a 'critical' biography so much as a study of Trollope the man, Frances Trollope's undervalued son, the Victorian husband and father, literature's most conspicuous workaholic, and here Glendinning succeeds, as no biographer has done before, in bringing him to life on the page with an adroit mixture show more of empathy and (sometimes stern) detachment. show less
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- Alternate titles
- Trollope
- Original publication date
- 1992
- People/Characters
- Anthony Trollope; Frances Trollope
- Epigraph
- In discussing the character of a man, there is no course of error so fertile as the drawing of a hard and fast line. We are attracted by salient points and seeing them clearly we jump to conclusions, as though there were a li... (show all)ghthouse on every point by which the nature of the coast would certainly be shown to us. And so it will if we accept the light only for so much of the shore as it illumines. . . .
The man of letters is, in truth, ever writing his own biography. What there is in his mind, is being declared to the world at large by himself. And if he can so write that the world at large shall care to read what is written, no other memoir will perhaps be necessary.
--Anthony Trollope, The Life of Cicero
The desire is common to all readers to know not only what a great writer has written, but also of what nature has been the man who produced such great work.
--Anthony Trollope, Thackeray - First words
- When Anthony Trollope visited South Africa in 1877, the Astronomer Royal at Capetown asked him if he was interested in the stars.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He ended his autobiography with them in mind: "Now I stretch out my hand, and from the further shore I bid adieu to all who have cared to read any among the many words that I have written."
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