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Anthony Trollope

1815 - 1882

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Anthony Trollope ( TROL-əp; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which revolves around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Trollope has received more than 1,631,941 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Anthony Trollope is the 1,956th most popular writer (down from 1,836th in 2019), the 1,496th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,443rd in 2019) and the 161st most popular British Writer.

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Notable Works

Barchester Towers
Fiction, Clergy, Clergy in fiction
Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable. Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope finally found his distinctive voice. In this his most popular novel, the chronicler continues the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, begun in The Warden, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of "progress" Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. Love, mammon, clerical in-fighting, and promotion again figure prominently and comically, all centered on the magnificently imagined cathedral city of Barchester. The central questions of this moral comedy -- Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? -- are skilfully handled with the subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership over the last 150 years. - Back cover.
1857
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Fiction, Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place), Clergy
1867
Doctor Thorne
Fiction, Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place), Clergy in fiction
Mary Thorne, orphaned (and illegitimate) niece of Dr. Thorne, has long been a favorite at Greshamsbury House--until Lady Arabella Gresham learns that her only son Frank is in love with Mary. The unhappy Mary is banished forthwith, because the Gresham family fortunes are so depleted that Frank must marry money. Frank, however, is one of the few completely honorable young men in Trollope's novels and remains stubbornly true to his love. Well, he does propose to another woman, at the insistence of his mother, but only with the virtual certainty that he will be rejected--as indeed he is. The lady is Miss Dunstable, one of Trollope's most delightful characters, a fabulously wealthy thirtyish heiress of an ointment company. She is a bold, witty woman, not beautiful, but attractive in her way, whose wealth invites countless proposals. After the rather complicated plot unfolds, the tables are completely turned, and Mary is eagerly welcomed by Lady Arabella (who, of course, has always loved her) as the savior of the family.
1800
Phineas Redux
Fiction, Legislators, Plantagenet Palliser (Fictitious character)
1800
The Warden
Fiction, Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place), Clergy
The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter's suitor Dr John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters are not improved when Harding's abrasive son-in law, Archdeacon Grantly, leaps into the fray to defend him against a campaign Bold begins in the national press. An affectionate and wittily satirical view of the workings of the Church of England, The Warden, the first of the Barchester Chronicles, is also a subtle exploration of the rights and wrongs of moral crusades and, in its account of Harding's intensely felt personal drama, a moving depiction of the private impact of public affairs.
1855
Framley Parsonage
Fiction, Clergy, Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)
When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to extol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country.
1861

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Anthony Trollope ranks 1,956 out of 7,302. Before him are Margarete Buber-Neumann, Denis Fonvizin, Thomas Merton, Movses Kaghankatvatsi, Eugene Nida, and Albert Memmi. After him are Ion Druță, Gian Giorgio Trissino, Sæmundr fróði, Pir Sultan Abdal, Pierre Klossowski, and Vasyl Sukhomlynsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Anthony Trollope ranks 24. Before him are Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, Andreas Achenbach, Constantin von Tischendorf, Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Princess Elisabeth of Prussia. After him are Eugène Marin Labiche, Andrew Graham, Wilhelm Peters, Horace Wells, George Meade, and Ii Naosuke. Among people deceased in 1882, Anthony Trollope ranks 31. Before him are Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Joachim Raff, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, and Alfred Escher. After him are Estanislao Figueras, Jørgen Moe, Thomas Hill Green, Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufmann, János Arany, and John Nelson Darby.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Trollope ranks 1,496 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Byrne (1929), John Henry Poynting (1852), Henry Pelham (1694), John Bagot Glubb (1897), Emily Watson (1967), and Maggie Reilly (1956). After him are Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York (1373), John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland (1504), Paul Bettany (1971), Robert Southey (1774), Dennis Nilsen (1945), and Elsa Lanchester (1902).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anthony Trollope ranks 161. Before him are Brian Aldiss (1925), Colin Wilson (1931), Joseph Addison (1672), Christopher Robin Milne (1920), Thomas Wyatt (1503), and Edward Young (1683). After him are Robert Southey (1774), Christopher Isherwood (1904), Karen Armstrong (1944), Philip Kerr (1956), Clive Barker (1952), and George MacDonald (1824).

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