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'Mark', she said 'The men are here' - by John Everett Millais, 1861. The scene depicts Fanny Roberts telling her husband that the bailiffs are at the door. A scene from Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope.
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2022-09-24

Millais' 1860 illustration of the Crawley family for Trollope's Framley Parsonage, with a lovely old-fashioned wooden cradle (notice the little detail of the doll on the floor) https://t.co/93ui9Mpyvj

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2022-07-07

Literary Advent Fact according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest known use of the phrase ‘Christmas pudding’ is in Anthony Trollope’s 1858 Barsetshire novel Doctor Thorne.

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2021-12-02

AGA SAGA? Thanks to , I discovered a new-to-me literary term, a subgenre that includes authors Johanna Trollope, Rosamunde Pilcher, & Liane Moriarty. Think of family sagas dealing with British country life. I never knew of was reading them all these years!

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2021-08-03

The Fixed Period, written in 1882, is Anthony Trollope’s only futuristic novel. Set in 1980 on the island of Britannula it deals with the theme of enforced euthanasia: citizens must die at the age of 67 to avoid suffering through infirmity and becoming a burden on the taxpayer.

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2021-06-26

New online, Richard Gibson's illuminating review of David Yeadle's bio. (open source, too!). Useful, when you think of all the curates in Victorian novels (e.g. Trollope's), & the fact that we don't usually see religious issues from this end of the scale https://t.co/OOBTBjISYr

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2021-06-07

that and were friends, & that Millais made 87 illustrations for Trollope's work— "and I do not think that more conscientious work was ever done by a man," said Trollope. Here is his illustration of the Crawley family https://t.co/93ui9Mpyvj

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2021-05-17

The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.

—Anthony Trollope, English novelist born 1815

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2021-04-24

Born in 1815: English author (1815-82)

Possible portrait by (1794-1858), 1832

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2021-04-24

1795: Without other support, “Carronade crazy” Captain Henry Trollope in HMS Glatton fought a successful action against a powerful French squadron of six large frigates, a brig, and a cutter off the Dutch coast. Click: https://t.co/M4ZWn3rWsr

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2021-04-24

When Anthony Trollope–who died 1882–revealed that he strictly adhered to a daily writing quota, & admitted that he wrote for money, he confirmed his critics' worst fears. Writers were expected to wait for inspiration, not to follow a schedule…

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2020-12-06

🌟Commissions are open again! 🌟I'm taking 10 slots this season.

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If you spent all your money this month - an RT would be amazing - help a starving trollope. :3c

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2020-11-20

Happy birthday, Anthony Trollope!
'The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.'

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2020-04-24

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2019-11-15

Above all else, never think you're not good enough. - Anthony Trollope

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2019-10-04

Delighted to say that Malcolm Trollope-Davis will be taking part in our on 24 March. He is also very kindly letting us use copies of for the hunt and will be drawing a section of on the day.

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2019-03-12

Sharing these two gorgeous portraits, currently on display at . Isabella Thorold and her soon to be husband, Thomas Middleton Trollope of Casewick Hall near both 1750s and by

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2019-02-04

The Lantern, Jan 26th 1878. Intelligent criticism.

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2018-12-11