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  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446418710
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576

Trollope




'Majestic, capacious, compelling and clear-sighted.' Hilary Spurling, Daily Telegraph

Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother. But it is Anthony as a husband and lover that intrigues her most. She looks at the nature of his love for his wife, Rose and at his love for Kate Field.

  • Published: 30 April 2011
  • ISBN: 9781446418710
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 576

About the author

Victoria Glendinning

Victoria Glendinning is the author of several biographies: Elizabeth Bowen (1977); Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn among Lions (which won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, 1981); Vita, a life of Vita Sackville-West (joint winner of the Whitbread Award for the best biography, 1983); Rebecca West (1987); Jonathan Swift (1998) and Trollope.

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Praise for Trollope

Glendinning succeeds, as no biographer has done before, in bringing him to life on the page-Here, at last, is an Anthony Trollope whom one can know as a man-The effect is startlingly impressive.

Jonathan Raban,, Independent on Sunday

'Enormously enjoyable'

John Mortimer, Books of the Year, Sunday Times

Full of fascinating knowledge about the Victorian age in England-A great story superbly told.'

Augustine Martin,, Irish Times

As compelling readable as any of Anthony's own novels.'

Ruth Rendell,, Sunday Express

I came to this biography of Trollope with unreasonably high expectations. They were amply fulfilled-A work as readable, richly shifting and well-shaped as a good novel-compendiously well-informed.'

Caroline Moore,, The Times

A brilliant and subtle interweaving of the man and the work; wonderful.'

Joanna Trollope, Books of the Year,, Daily Telegraph