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by Anthony Trollope


  Travels to Egypt, England and the West Indies on postal business

  Doctor Thorne

  1859 Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

  Leaves Ireland to settle in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, after being appointed Surveyor of the Eastern District of England

  The Bertrams and The West Indies and the Spanish Main

  1860 Dickens, Great Expectations (–1861)

  Framley Parsonage (–1861, his first serialized fiction) and Castle Richmond

  1861 American Civil War (–1865)

  John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism. Mrs Beeton, Book of Household Management

  Travels to USA to research a travel book

  Orley Farm (–1862)

  1862 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Last Poems

  Elected to the Garrick Club

  The Small House at AUington (–1864) and North America

  1863 His mother dies in Florence

  Rachel Ray

  1864 Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters (–1866)

  Elected to the Athenaeum Club

  Can You Forgive Her? (–1865)

  1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated

  Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

  Fortnightly Review founded by Trollope (among others)

  Miss Mackenzie, The Belton Estate (–1866)

  1866 Eliot, Felix Holt the Radical

  The Claverings (–1867), Nina Balatka (–1867) and The Last Chronicle ofBarset (–1867)

  1867 Second Reform Act extends the franchise further, enlarging the electorate to almost two million

  Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Song of Italy

  Resigns from the GPO and assumes editorship of St Paul’s Magazine

  Phineas Finn (–1869)

  1868 Last public execution in London

  Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

  Visits the US A on a postal mission; returns to England to stand unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Beverley, Yorkshire

  He Knew He Was Right (–1869)

  1869 Suez Canal opened

  Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone

  The Vicar of Bullhampton (–1870)

  1870 Married Women’s Property Act passed

  Dickens, The Mystery of Edwin Drood

  Resigns editorship of St Paul’? Magazine

  Ralph the Heir (–1871), Sir harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, and a translation of The Commentaries of Caesar

  1871 Eliot, Middlemarch (–1872)

  Gives up house at Waltham Cross and sails to Australia with Rose to visit his son Frederic

  The Eustace Diamonds (–1873)

  1872 Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree and A Pair of Blue Eyes (–1873)

  Travels in Australia and New Zealand and returns to England via the USA

  The Golden Lion of Granpere

  1873 Mill, Autobiography

  Settles in Montagu Square, London

  Lady Anna (–1874), Phineas Redux (–1874); Australia and New Zealand and Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life

  1874 The first Impressionist Exhibition in Paris

  Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

  The Way We Live Now (–1875)

  1875 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

  Travels to Australia, via Brindisi, Suez and Ceylon

  Begins writing An Autobiography on his return. The Prime Minister (–1876)

  1876 Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer

  Finishes writing An Autobiography. The American Senator (–1877)

  1877 Henry James, The American

  Visits South Africa

  Is He Popenjoy? (–1878)

  1878 Hardy, The Return of the Native

  Sails to Iceland

  John Caldigate (–1879), The Lady of Launay, An Eye for an Eye (–1879) and South Africa

  1879 George Meredith, The Egoist

  Cousin Henry, The Duke’s Children (–1880) and Thackeray

  1880 Greenwich Mean Time made the legal standard in Britain. First Anglo-Boer War (–1881)

  Benjamin Disraeli, Evfymion

  Settles in South Halting, W. Sussex

  Dr Worth’s School and The Life of Cicero

  1881 In Ireland, Parnell is arrested for conspiracy and the Land League is outlawed

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (–1882)

  Ayala’s Angel, The Fixed Period (–1882) and Marion Fay (–1882)

  1882 Phoenix Park murders in Dublin

  Visits Ireland twice to research a new Irish novel, and returns to spend the winter in London. Dies on 6 December

  Kept in the Dark, Mr Scarborough’s Family (–1883) and The Landleaguers (–1883, unfinished)

  1883 An Autobiography is published under the supervision of Trollope’s son Henry

  1884 An Old Man’s Love

  1923 The Noble Jilt

  1927 London Tradesmen (reprinted from the Pall Man Gazette, 1880)

  1972 The New Zealander

  1 The Letters of Mrs Gaskell, ed. J. A. V. Chapple and A. Pollard (Manchester, 1966), p. 602.

  2 The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ed. F. G. Kenyon (London, 1897), vol. 2, p. 391.

  3 The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. N. J. Hall (Stanford, Ca., 1983), (2 vols paginated as one), vol. 1, p. 89. (Referred to hereafter as Letters.)

  4 Letters, p. 91.

  5 An Autobiography, ed. F. Page and M. Sadleir (Oxford: the Oxford Trollope, 1950; reprinted in World’s Classics, 1980), p. 141.

  6 E. S. Dallas [anon], ‘Anthony Trollope’, The Times, 23 May 1859,12.

  7 Letters, pp. 116–17.

  8 Journey to a War (London, 1939), pp. 3 7–8.

  9 Autobiography, pp. 142–3.

  10 Letters, p. xxxii.

  11 Saturday Review, xl, 4 May 1861, 451–2.

  12 William Hepworth Dixon [anon.], notice of Part One of Orles Farm, Athenaeum, no. 1741, 9 March 1861, 319–20.

  13 British Quarterly Review, xxxiv, July 1861, 263.

  14 R. H. Hutton [anon.], obituary, Spectator, lv, 9 December 1882,1573–4.

  15 The Art of Eating in France, trans. N. Rootes (London, 1975),pp. 158-9.

  16 Letters, p. 141.

  17 Letters, pp. 104 and III.

  18 N. N. Glisev, Chronicle of the Life and Work of L. N. Tolstoy 1828-1890 (Moscow, 1958), p. 315; quoted by R. M. Polhemus, The Changing World of Anthony Trollope (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968), p. 207n.

  19 Autobiography, pp. 226–7.

  20 Graham Greene, Collected Essays (Penguin, 1970), p. 91.

  21 pp. 46 and 348.

  22 See R. H. Hutton [anon.], ‘From Miss Austen to Mr. Trollope’, Spectator, lv, 16 December 1882,1609-11.

  23 p. 240

  24 Autobiography, p. 143.

  25 p. 369.

  26 p. 558.

  27 Letters, pp. 145-6.

  28 Autobiography, p. 139.

  29 letters, pp. 92-3.

  30 Letters, p. 131.

  31 The editors wish to thank the Librarian and Trustees of Harrow School for access to the manuscript.

  32 Letters, p. 93.

  33 Letters, p. 99.

  34 Letters, p. 114.

  35 Letters, p. 129.

  36 Letters, pp. 142-3.

  37 Letters, p. 250.

  38 p. 414.

  39 P. 57.

  40 p. 402.

  41 p. 482.

  42 Letters, p. 93.

  43 Letters, p. 106. See note 1 to Chapter 20.

  44 See note 1 to Chapter 33.

  45 See note 1 to Chapter 26.

 

 

 
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