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Anthony Trollope (/ ˈ t r ɒ l ə p / TROL-əp; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) [2] 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.
The advent of the British wayside letter box can be traced to Sir Rowland Hill, Secretary of the Post Office, and his Surveyor for the Western District, and noted novelist, Anthony Trollope. Hill sent Trollope to the Channel Islands to ascertain what could be done about the problem of collecting the mail on a pair of islands.
Anthony Trollope's signature. There is little to suggest that Anthony Trollope ever planned to write these six novels collectively as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. [3] [4] Rather, after developing the county of Barsetshire in The Warden, Trollope found himself frequently returning, often in response to the request of publishers. In doing so ...
He Knew He Was Right was the first book written by Anthony Trollope after resigning his former position in the Post Office in 1867. He started writing in November 1867, and finished the book while staying in America in spring 1868.
Trollope considered Can You Forgive Her?, Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister to be the four novels that constitute the Palliser series. In his autobiography he wrote: [ 1 ] To carry out my scheme I have had to spread my picture over so wide a canvas that I cannot expect that any lover of such art should trouble himself to look ...
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The Three Clerks (1857) is a novel by Anthony Trollope, set in the lower reaches of the Civil Service.It draws on Trollope's own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office, and has been called the most autobiographical of Trollope's novels. [1]
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