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2 unusual facts about Trollope


Barsetshire Pilgrimage

Novel by Father Ronald Knox, published in London by Sheed & Ward in 1935, in which Knox picks up the narrative of the original Barsetshire Novels where Anthony Trollope breaks off.

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Rowan Trollope (born 1972), Canadian business administrator; former Group President, Symantec Corporation


Andrew Trollope

At the Battle of Ludford Bridge Trollope commanded part of the Yorkist army of Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, but betrayed him to the Lancastrians bringing with him 'valuable intelligence' regarding York's army.

Aubrey–Maturin series

Though sometimes compared to Trollope, Melville, Conrad and even Proust, the Aubrey–Maturin series has most often been compared to the works of Jane Austen, one of O'Brian's greatest inspirations in English literature.

Bert Head

This system produced many future Swindon greats – Trollope, Mike Summerbee, Bobby Woodruff, Ernie Hunt, Keith Morgan, Roger Smart, Rod Thomas, David 'Bronco' Layne and Don Rogers to name but a few – and, as they gradually climbed the league table, the team earned the nickname, "Bert's Babes".

Castle Wemyss

It is reputed that Trollope wrote part of Barchester Towers whilst at Wemyss Bay, and that 'Portray Castle' in The Eustace Diamonds was based on Castle Wemyss.

Giuseppe Giusti

Good English translations were published in the Athenaeum by Mrs TA Trollope, and some by WD Howells are in his Modern Italian Poets (1887).

Hermione Lee

She has edited and introduced numerous editions and anthologies of Kipling, Trollope, Virginia Woolf, Stevie Smith, Elizabeth Bowen, Willa Cather, Eudora Welty, and Penelope Fitzgerald.

Hogglestock

A fictional town in Barsetshire, in the works of Anthony Trollope, especially The Last Chronicle of Barset

Robert Trollope

Robert Trollope was a 17th-century English architect, born in Yorkshire, who worked mainly in Northumberland and Durham.

Sausthorpe

In 1885 Kelly's Directory recorded the Rev. Charles Trollope Swan LLB as living at Sausthorpe Hall, a "modern mansion in a park of 30 acres".

The American Senator

In Senator Gotobed, Trollope employs a device similar to that used by Montesquieu in the Lettres Persanes and by Goldsmith in The Citizen of the World.

The Fixed Period

In 1905, after he had been appointed Professor of Medicine at Oxford, Canadian physician William Osler gave a farewell address on leaving Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in which he referred to Trollope's The Fixed Period in a humorous manner.

"Editor's Preface," Anthony Trollope: The Fixed Period, (University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor), pp.

Trollope baronets

The author Anthony Trollope was the son of Thomas Anthony Trollope (1774–1835), the son of Reverend Anthony Trollope (1737–1806), younger son of the fourth Baronet.


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