Trollop Entoni

Anthony Trollope was an English writer, a novelist of the Victorian era.

Childhood and Education

Trollope was born in London. The writer’s father, Thomas Anthony Trollope, was a barrister of the Court of Chancery. After losing all his clients, he moved with his family to the countryside, where he intended to establish a model farm. However, Thomas Trollope’s farming efforts led him to complete ruin. He abandoned the farm and worked on compiling a “Church Encyclopedia,” which never saw the light of day. The family lived in poverty. Of six children, four died of tuberculosis. Two survived: Anthony and his older brother.

By great effort and humiliation, their mother managed to place her sons as free day pupils in the prestigious Harrow School. At school, Anthony suffered from the contempt and ridicule of the wealthy pupils.

In an attempt to improve the family’s financial situation, Trollope’s mother went to Cincinnati in America in 1827, where she intended to open a trade in dry goods. The venture failed. But upon returning to England, Frances Trollope managed to write the book Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), in which she mercilessly mocked the customs of the inhabitants of the New World. The book was a success and brought the family some financial security. Frances decided to earn her living by literary work, and one novel after another came from her pen, catering to the tastes of an undemanding public and therefore selling quickly.

In 1834 Trollope’s father was ruined once and for all and was forced to flee his creditors to Belgium. The whole family followed him there. In 1835 Thomas died in Bruges. Life in Ireland and the Beginning of a Literary Career

On returning to England, Anthony was forced to take up employment in order to earn a living. He became a clerk in the Post Office in London. He spent seven unhappy and spiritually stifling years in this service.

In 1841 the Post Office offered him a promotion: the post of postal surveyor in Ireland. There, in 1844, Trollope married Rose Heseltine. In Ireland he had more free time and decided to carry out his idea of