
Frances Trollope
Carolyn Lambert(Author)
Edward Everett Root (Publisher)
Published on 31. January 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
230 pages
978-1-912224-96-8 (ISBN)
Description
By the standards of any age, Frances (Fanny) Trollope was an extraordinary woman who led an extraordinary life. She did not begin writing until she was 53, but in the 24 years between 1832 and 1856 she produced no fewer than 40 books, comprising 150 volumes. E impulse was to save her family from financial ruin. / The Mother of the novelist Anthony Trollope, she was born at Stapleton near Bristol on 10 March 1779. / She drew unashamedly on her own experiences, the people she met on her travels and her large circle of friends and acquaintances to produce her copious range of novels and travel books. She was prolific, critically well-received and very popular. It is puzzling to know why she has apparently been marginalised and largely over-looked, particularly given the radical and controversial nature of much of her writing, combined with her unerring eye for the pretentious, exuberant comic sense, and sardonic wit. This book exposes the reasons for Trollope's unjustified neglect and seeks to give her the recognition she deserves.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Brighton
United Kingdom
Target group
Adult education
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
296 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912224-96-8 (9781912224968)
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Carolyn Lambert is a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton where she teaches nineteenth-century literature. She is the author of The Meanings of Home in Elizabeth Gaskell's Fiction (2013) and co-editor with Marion Shaw of For Better, For Worse: Marriage in Victorian Novels by Women (2017). She has a chapter entitled 'Female Voices in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton' in a forthcoming publication from Bloomsbury edited by Adrienne E Gavin and Carolyn W de la Oulton.