ANTHONY TROLLOPE

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament as a Liberal candidate in 1868. After he lost...

John does not quite understand his father, Daniel Caldigate, Squire of Folking. His mother and two sisters have died, very recently while John was in his first year at Harrow; and when he returns to Folking for the holiday his father hides whatever grief he feels and discourses on subjects of small interest to a boy who, at fifteen, is forming h...

Lady Anna (1874) by Anthony Trollope is a British Victorian novel of social mores, courtship, and thwarted relationships, dealing with the impact of an extended legal dispute over the validity of a noble title upon the lives of a countess and her daughter. In this powerful story that the author himself considered one of his most successful, La...