Anthony Trollope

Index

Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………3
Date and birthplace……………………………………………………………………………………4
Family circle………………………………………………………………………………………………...4
Studies and universities………………………………………………………………………………5
Jobs……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..5
Travels…………………………………………………………………………………………………………8
Books and other works………………………………………………………………………………9Achievements…………………………………………………………………………………………...11
Death……………………………………………………………………………………………...……..….12
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………..……….13
Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………………….………..14

Introduction
Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known asthe Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.

Anthony Trollope

Date and Birthplace
Anthony Trollope was born in Keppel Street London on 24 April 1815, the year of the battle of Waterloo. He was the fourth surviving child of Thomas Anthony Trollope, abarrier, and Frances, the gregarious and social daughter of a not very well off parson, Frances Milton.

Family Circle
Thomas Trollope was a clever, well educated man, a fellow of New College, Oxford, well connected and industrious. He was also bad temper and querulous, not a popular or well liked man. His bad temper led to failure at the bar, and his ventures in farming were unprofitable. His badluck was exacerbated when he lost and inheritance on which he was counting when an elderly uncle married and started a family.

Thomas Trollope came from genteel background, with connections to the gentry. He was first cousin to Sir John Trollope, Baronet, whose family seat was at Casewick Hall in Uffington, Lincolnshire. He wanted his sons to be educated as gentlemen, at Oxford or Cambridge. Theconflict between the family’s social background and Thomas Trollope’s impecuniosities caused misery for Anthony as a boy, attending major public schools but without any money
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Anthony attended Harrow School as a free day pupil for three years from the age of seven because his father's farm, acquired for that reason, lay in that neighbourhood. After a spell at a private school at Sunbury, hefollowed his father and two older brothers to Winchester College, where he remained for three years. He returned to Harrow as a day-boy to reduce the cost of his education. Trollope had some very miserable experiences at these two public schools. They ranked as two of the most élite schools in England, but Trollope had no money and no friends, and was bullied a great deal. At the age of twelve, hefantasized about suicide. However, he also daydreamed, constructing elaborate imaginary worlds.

From 1830 the situation at home got steadily worse. The farm at Harrow was failing, and Thomas Trollope gave up his practice at the bar. His temper was now so bad that Anthony thought that his father’s reason would become unhinged. As Thomas could now no longer provide any kind of income for thefamily.

His mother Frances Trollope moved to America with Trollope's three younger siblings, where she opened a bazaar in Cincinnati, which proved unsuccessful. Thomas Trollope joined them for a short time before returning to the farm at Harrow, but Anthony stayed in England throughout. His mother returned in 1831 and rapidly made a name for herself as a writer, soon earning a good income. Hisfather's affairs, however, went from bad to worse. He gave up his legal practice entirely and failed to make enough income from farming to pay rents to his landlord, Lord Northwick. In 1834 he fled to Belgium to avoid arrest for debt. The whole family moved to a house near Bruges, where they lived entirely on Frances's earnings. Thomas health failed and a year later he died, so too did...