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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.
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 ...
The Warden: 1855 Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans Barchester Towers: 1857 Barchester Towers was the first of Trollope's novels to establish his popularity with the general reading public.
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.
Can You Forgive Her? is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series , also known as the Parliamentary Novels. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and ...
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 ...
The first pillar boxes in Britain were introduced in the Channel Islands as an experiment in 1852. Anthony Trollope, the novelist, who was employed by the General Post Office, trialled pillar boxes in the Channel Islands before introducing them into mainland Britain. [1] He was influenced by roadside letter-receiving pillars used in France.