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Chronicler of Victorian Britain: A Profile of Anthony Trollope |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
| Author: Cynthia Grenier |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 1,618 Words, 10,055 Characters |
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Trollope was one of the most popular and articulate chroniclers of the highly productive Victorian age. Count Leo Tolstoy declared, "Trollope captivates me with his mastery." Tolstoy may well have been inspired by Trollope's example in The Prime Minister to place a key suicide by locomotive in Anna Karenina. After reading The Prime Minister, the great Russian novelist wrote, "Trollope kills me with his excellence."
During the nearly thirty years of his civil service employment, Trollope introduced many innovations, including the still well-known red pillar postboxes dotted across Great Britain. With extraordinary discipline and enthusiasm and an almost religious devotion, Trollope wrote every day. He was anything but the conventional romantic artistic creator so dear to popular imagination, nibbling on his pen, gazing out the window, waiting for the muse to descend. Trollope was quite unabashed about writing for money. He not only kept a diary recording how many words he produced each day...
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...ent, particularly in France and Austria, Trollope had become concerned that increasing speculation and dishonesty were destroying the moral fiber of the British upper classes. He then wrote The Way We Live Now. Readers in our time will almost inevitably find foreshadowings of what can happen to a society that loses its moral base. Today as yesterday, Trollope is very much a meaningful author.
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