![]() ![]() ![]() Perhaps as interesting as the facts he reveals and the opinions he records about Dickens and George Eliot, politics and the civil service are the judgments he passes on his own character. Trollope looks back on his life with satisfaction. ![]() His efforts resulted in over sixty books, a sizable fortune, and fame, and his autobiography. and disciplined himself to write 250 words every fifteen minutes has become part of literary legend. How he paid his groom to wake him every morning at 5:30 a.m. , or travel in the country, when they see the streets. But he had inherited his mother's determination, and managed later to carve out a successful career in the General Post Office while devoting every spare moment to writing. It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town. He was the victim of vicious bullying at Harrow and Winchester. But as to myself, having been wearied out for many years with offering vain, idle, visionary thoughts, and at length utterly despairing of success. Trollope was born in 1815, the product of a formidable mother and a tragically unsuccessful father who was socially ambitious for his sons. According to Jonathan Swifts A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating autobiographies of the nineteenth century. ![]() Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. ![]()
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