A village that was the invention of Anthony Trollope has been transplanted to the 1950s in "Happy Returns".
Bishop admired Trollope's novels and wrote a poem called "From Trollope's Journal", about which she said in a letter was "actually an anti-Eisenhower poem..., although it's really almost all Trollope, phrase after phrase." (11/18/1965)
Thirkell used the imaginary world of Barsetshire, which Anthony Trollope introduced in his famous Barsetshire novels, in her own fiction.
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Fanny Trollope, also a writer, was Anthony's mother.
Joanna Trollope, the 20th-century novelist, is a descendant of Anthony Trollope.
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Tolstoy seems to have concocted the "English novel" Anna is reading on the train in chapter 29 from several novels by Anthony Trollope, a writer he greatly admired.
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Trollope worked as a civil servant in the post office until he was 52, at the same time traveling extensively in Britain, the U. S., and Europe. He turned his foreign journeys into travel books and his observations on English life into 47 novels. His books deal with most of the typical themes of Victorian literature: class, money, status, youth and age, marriage and sexual mores, and the crisis in the institutions of the Church of England. Each of the novels is self-contained, but many character more...
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04/24/1815 London, Southern England, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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The second and probably the most popular of the Barchester Chronicles centres around the appointment of a new bishop and all the intrigues around that. It continues the story of the warden and his daughters and introduces new characters that will become more important as the story progresses.
You can read this novel on its own but it is so much more fulfilling if you read “The Warden” first.
As I said in my description of the first one, I really love these novels, they are so diverse.