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Frances Trollope
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Frances Trollope : The Lottery of Marriage. A novel.
'I have been reading a book by Mrs Trollope called "the Lottery of Marriage" a very nice book for little girls to read, but hardly fit for a grown up man'
Century: 1850-1899 Reader/Listener/Group: Albert Battiscombe Print: Book
Frances Milton Trollope : Tremordyn Cliff
'I am very desirous to read Mrs Trollope's Paris and the Parisians; her Tremordyn Cliff I read with considerable pleasure. She must be an amorous Old Dame; all these matters she describes with the most juvenile warmth and impetuosity'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Sydney Smith Print: Book
Frances Trollope : Domestic Manners of the Americans
Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The Vicar of Wrexhill (extracts)
Elizabeth Barrrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 12 October 1837: 'The village [i.e. (apparently) Mitford's] reminds me of the Vicar of Wrexhill -- at least of the extracts I have seen from it! -- What a lamentable book -- & to be written by a woman -- who from the weakness & softness of her nature should so feel the need & the beauty of that strength & surpassing tenderness found in the religion of Jesus Christ, & only there! -- It is very ill to hold up to scorn the most unsecular portion of the Church of England -- but to do so by misrepresen[ta]tion & perversion is most ill! [goes on to complain further regarding representation of religious characters, and quotation from Scripture, in text]'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
Frances Trollope : One Fault. A Novel
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, late January 1840: 'Have you seen Mrs Gore & Mrs Trollope in their late avatars? "Preferment", with an undeniable cleverness, is dull & heavy [...] As to "One fault", with neither dulness nor heaviness, the book seems to [italics]me[end italics] far less clever than Mrs Trollope's books generally or always are [goes on to discuss aspects of this text, including plot, further]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The Blue Belles of England
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 23-25 December 1841: 'Have you read the "Blue Belles"? Do -- it is very clever -- and besides I want you to send me the little key which belongs to the personalities. Who is Lady Dort? -- & Mrs Stewart Gardiner? Who is the painter? It is very clever -- good for its bad class!'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The Blue Belles of England
Mary Russell Mitford to Elizabeth Barrett, 9 January 1842: 'My dear love -- I have just looked through the Blue Belles -- and so far as I can guess at Mrs Trollope's people [...] I should say that Lady Dort was Mrs Skinner of Portland Place -- who is really quite as absurd if not more so [goes on to identify possible originals of other characters in text]'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Russell Mitford Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The Barnabys in America
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 4 November 1842: 'I have been reading Mrs Trollope in the New Monthly. She is very clever there is no denying. But I do wonder whether the [italics]educated[end italics] quakers make use of [italics]Thee[end italics] in the nominative case -- whether they make use of such execrable grammar (for instance) as "Thee bee'st". I never heard a quaker talk, and yet I cd scarcely wonder or doubt at all about it, if I did not observe that Capt. Marryat & Mrs Trollope & other writers of at least supposed education, represent their quakers always talking so.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Serial / periodical
Frances Trollope : Letter to Mary Russell Mitford
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 28 December 1842: 'I am bewitched, my beloved friend, to be sure! Do you know I could have been obstinate in my self-persuasion that I had returned to you Mrs Trollope's letter & here it is in my writing basket. And all this while I have been rewarding you for your kindness in letting me see it [...] & keeping you from sending your answer, by my carelessness.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Manuscript: Letter
Frances Trollope : Hargrave, or the Adventures of a Man of Fashion
Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 29 March 1843: 'I have been reading to my amusement, Mrs Trollope's Hargrave. She has great skill in the construction of a story & shows it here; although I do not think that otherwise & generally, the work is of her cleverest.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The Laurringtons; or, superior people
Vol. III: "Sept 10 1922 A jolly book with all its faults and absurdities. The social manners and ways of three generations ago are illustrated cheerfully in its pages." "Read again, with the same amusement, in the winter of 1927-8". Vol.II p.137: "The whole novel is burlesque. It is to me, as it was to my mother, uncle [Lord Macaulay], and to my sister Margaret, supremely and singularly readable. Dec 5 1927 Welcombe"
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The ward of Thorpe-Combe
"What an admirable and clear type this most readable book is printed in! June 18 1928". "Perhaps the last time this amazing, but most amusing, book has been read, and reread, by many Macaulays and Trevelyans. June 9 1928". With a note by this in the hand of Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan: "Only nine weeks before he died."
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: George Otto Trevelyan Print: Book
Frances Trollope : The ward of Thorpe-Combe
"Read June 19 1947".
