Anthony Trollope - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope: Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 – December 6, 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Vi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthony Trollope - Biography
Anthony Trollope was born in London, the son of a barrister, Thomas Anthony Trollope, and his wife Frances, who would later become a succ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Wales: Encyclopedia - Bbc Wales
BBC Wales (or BBC Cymru) is the regional branch of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales, and is based at Broadcasting House in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 24: Encyclopedia - April 24
April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). There are 251 days remaining. April 24 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1815: Encyclopedia - 1815
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - December 6: Encyclopedia - December 6
December 6 is the 340th day (341st on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 25 days remaining. December 6 - Event...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winchester College: Encyclopedia - Winchester College
Winchester College is a public school in the city of Winchester in Hampshire, in the south of England. It is arguably the 'original' publ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vendée: Encyclopedia - Vendée
Vendée is a département in west central France, on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay. The name Vendée is taken from the Vendée river whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vicar: Encyclopedia - Vicar
In the broadest sense, a vicar (from the Latin vicarius) is anyone acting as a substitute or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious"). ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - C. P. Snow: Encyclopedia - C. P. Snow
Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow, CBE (15 October 1905 - 1 July 1980) was a scientist and novelist. Born in Leicester, he was educated at U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia - British Literature
British literature is literature from the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The largest part of this literature is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1872 In Literature: Encyclopedia - 1872 In Literature
See also: 1871 in literature, other events of 1872, 1873 in literature, list of years in literature. 1872 in literature - Events. 1872 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winchester College: Encyclopedia Ii - Winchester College - History
Winchester College was founded in the fourteenth century by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to Richard II, and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vicar: Encyclopedia Ii - Vicar - Anglican
In the Church of England, vicar is the ordinary title given to certain parish priests. Historically, Anglican parish clergymen were divid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection: Encyclopedia Ii - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection - Black Dustjacket Hardcover Collection
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - ISBN 1566192943 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - ISBN 15...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - December 6: Encyclopedia Ii - December 6 - Deaths
December 6 - Undated deaths. Saint Nicholas of Myra ... See also:December 6, December 6 - Events, December 6 - Births, December 6 -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Old English Literature
Main Article: Anglo-Saxon literature The earliest form of the English language developed after the settlement of the Saxons and other Ger...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Christianity
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Roman Catholic Church. Adso of Melk (Benedictine)- The Name of the Rose novel & ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel - History
Novel - Traditions of Prose Fiction: The Ancient World. As Pierre Daniel Huet noted in 1670, the tradition of epic works went back as f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brideshead Revisited: Encyclopedia Ii - Brideshead Revisited - Plot Summary
After an unpleasant chance first encounter, protagonist Charles Ryder, a student at an unnamed college (though critics have suggested Wau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Wales: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Wales - Overview
BBC Wales produces television programming in English and Welsh both for the regional opt-out sections of the BBC One and Two network feed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - Ballybeg Priory
Philip de Barry founded the priory of St. Thomas à Becket at Ballybeg for the Canons Regular of St. Augustine in 1229. His grandson, Dav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Country Dialects: Encyclopedia Ii - West Country Dialects - History And Origins
Until the 19th century the West Country and its dialects were largely protected from outside influences due to its relative geographical ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Literature - Movement And Change
The great social changes which happened in Britain during Victoria's reign as a result of the latter part of the Industrial Revolution le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winchester College: Encyclopedia Ii - Winchester College - History
Winchester College was founded in the fourteenth century by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor to Richard II, and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel - History
Novel - Traditions of Prose Fiction: The Ancient World. see also: Early novels. As Pierre Daniel Huet noted in 1670, the tradition of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel Sequence: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel Sequence - Definitions
There is no useful, formal demarcation between novel sequences and multi-part novels. Novels that are related may or may not fall into a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - Canada
Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Gorey: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Gorey - Biography
Born in Chicago, Gorey attended a variety of local grade schools and then the Francis W. Parker School. He spent 1944–1946 in the Army ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Partial Portraits: Encyclopedia Ii - Partial Portraits - Summary And Themes
The Art of Fiction was a response to remarks by English critic Walter Besant, who wrote an article that literally attempted to lay down t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - Canada
Province of New Brunswick: Fernhill Cemetery, Saint John - final resting place of several early Canadian statesmen including Sir Samue...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vendée: Encyclopedia Ii - Vendée - History
The area today called the Vendée was originally known as the Bas-Poitou. In the south-east corner, the village of Nieul-sur-l'Autise is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Everett Millais: Encyclopedia Ii - John Everett Millais - Life And Work
Millais was born in Southampton of a prominent Jersey-based family. His prodigious artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Jacobean Literature
After Shakespeare's death, the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson was the leading literary figure of the Jacobean era. However, Jonson's aesth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Freemasons: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Freemasons - Famous Freemasons
List of Freemasons - Political and civil rights leaders. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento José de San Martín Carlos Pellegrini (source:&...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Solomon's Mines: Encyclopedia Ii - King Solomon's Mines - Plot Summary
Allan Quatermain, an English adventurer and hunter based in Durban, South Africa, is approached by an English aristocrat Sir Henry and hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Post-modern Literature
John Fowles and Julian Barnes are examples of Postmodern literature in English. References British Postmodern Fiction by Theo D'Haen, Han...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Literary Prizes
Recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature from the isles include Rudyard Kipling (1907), George Bernard Shaw (1925), John Galsworthy (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Gorey: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Gorey - Books
Gorey wrote more than 100 books, including: The Unstrung Harp, 1953 The Doubtful Guest, 1957 The Object-Lesson, 1958 The Curious Sofa: A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Partial Portraits: Encyclopedia Ii - Partial Portraits - Critical Evaluation
Although later critics have often disagreed with James' particular judgments of individual writers or works, almost all acknowledge that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - Miscelllaneous
The steeplechase originated in 1752 as a result of a horse race from the steeple of Buttevant Protestant church to that of Doneraile, 4 m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Restoration Literature
Main article: Restoration literature Restoration literature includes both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high spiri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - History
Henry III of England, by grant of 26 September 1234, conceded a market at Buttevant to David Og de Barry to be held on Sundays, and a fai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - The Franciscan Friary
An important early Franciscan Friary also dedicated to St. Thomas à Becket is recorded in the Annales of the Four Masters as having bee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - Cahirmee Horse Fair
Buttevant has a long equine tradition; the ancient Cahirmee horse fair which was held at the Fair Field of Charimee, some 2 miles to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel Sequence: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel Sequence - History
The novel sequence was a product of the nineteenth century, with Fenimore Cooper's works appearing in the 1820s, and Trollope's Barcheste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - Literary History
Buttevant also has many literary associations: Edmund Spencer, from his manor at Kilcolman, referred to it and his gentle Mullagh in The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Caroline And Cromwellian Literature
The turbulent years of the mid-17th century, during the reign of Charles I and the subsequent Commonwealth and Protectorate, saw a flouri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Non English Language Literatures Since 1900
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Welsh literature began to reflect the way the Welsh language was increasingly becoming a politic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Non English Language Literatures From The 16th Century To The 19th Century
As the Norman nobles of Scotland assimilated to indigenous culture they commissioned Scots versions of popular continental romances, for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Literature - Other Literature
The Victorians are sometimes credited with inventing childhood, with their efforts to stop child labour and the introduction of compulsor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winchester College: Encyclopedia Ii - Winchester College - Boarding Houses
Every pupil at Winchester lives in a boarding house, chosen when applying to Winchester. It is here that he eats, sleeps and works. House...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vicar: Encyclopedia Ii - Vicar - Roman Catholic
In Roman Catholic canon law, a vicar is the local representative of any ecclesiastic. The Romans had used the term to describe officials ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature From 1660 To The Late 18th Century
The position of Poet Laureate was formalised in this period. The early 18th century is known as the Augustan Age of English literature. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Literature - The Style Of The Victorian Novel
Virginia Woolf in her series of essays The Common Reader called George Eliot's Middlemarch "one of the few English novels written for gro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Victorian Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Victorian Literature - Novelists
Charles Dickens exemplifies the Victorian novel better than any other writer. Extraordinarily popular in his day with his characters taki...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Country Dialects: Encyclopedia Ii - West Country Dialects - In Literature
In literary terms, most of the usage has been in either poetry, or dialogue, to add "local colour". It has rarely been used for serious p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - English Language Literature Since 1900
The major lyric poet of the first decades of the 20th century was Thomas Hardy, who concentrated on poetry after the harsh response to hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - West Country Dialects: Encyclopedia Ii - West Country Dialects - Characteristics
The characteristic features of the accent of the region include: A slower, drawling manner of speech, with lengthened vowel sounds (this...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - 19th Century English Language Literature
British literature - The Romantics. Major political and social changes at the end of the eighteenth century, particularly the French Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel Sequence: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel Sequence - Contemporary Novel Sequences
Sequences of genre fiction are not generally considered romans-fleuve; the Aubrey–Maturin series of Patrick O'Brian might qualify, and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buttevant: Encyclopedia Ii - Buttevant - Origins Of The Name
The name "Buttevant" is believed to derive from the war cry of the Barry family: Boutez-en-Avant. The Rotulus Pipae Cloynensis (1364) mak...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Late Medieval Literature In England
Latin literature circulated among the educated classes. Following the Norman conquest, the development of Anglo-Norman literature in the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Other Medieval Literatures
For a comparatively small country, Ireland has made a disproportionate contribution to world literature in all its branches, and especial...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bbc Wales: Encyclopedia Ii - Bbc Wales - Programming
BBC Wales - Produced in-house by BBC Wales. For Wales Wales Today (1963—present) Pobol y Cwm (1974—present) Belonging (1999—pr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Post-modern Literature
John Fowles and Julian Barnes are examples of Postmodern literature in English. References British Postmodern Fiction by Theo D'Haen, Ha...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - People's Republic Of China
List of cemeteries - Hong Kong. Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong Gallant Garden is the cemete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel - Individual Novels Discussed
From Western antiquity—Greece and Rome—these are the earliest, extant novels: Xenophon, The Education of Cyrus (Greek, 4th century B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - King Solomon's Mines: Encyclopedia Ii - King Solomon's Mines - History
The book was first published in September 1885 with billboards and posters around London announcing "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written"....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Shinto
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Priests. Rei Hino's grandfather ("Jī-chan") - Sailor Moon Kagome's grandfather ("Jī...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Cemeteries: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Cemeteries - People's Republic Of China
List of cemeteries - Hong Kong. Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb Museum - earliest funeral architecture in Hong Kong Gallant Garden is the cemete...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Buddhism
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Mahayana. Inei Hōzōin (Zen) - Vagabond Genjyo Sanzo - Saiyuki Mikihisa Asakura ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Fictional Clergy And Religious Figures - Fictional Religions
List of fictional clergy and religious figures - Yevonism from Final Fantasy X. Maesters are considered equivalent of cardinals, with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Novel: Encyclopedia Ii - Novel - Novel/romance: Unstable Words
One meaning of the English word novel has remained stable: novel can still signify what is new due to its "novelty". When it comes to fic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Georgian Literature
The Georgian poets maintained a conservative approach to poetry. The experiences of the First World War were reflected in the work of war...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Modernism
Main Article: History of modern literature The movement known as English literary modernism grew out of a general sense of disillusionmen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Age Of Sensibility
During the Age of Sensibility, literature reflected the worldview of the Enlightenment (or Age of Reason) – a rational and scientific a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winchester College: Encyclopedia Ii - Winchester College - List Of Boarding Houses
Each house has an official name, used mainly as a postal address, and an informal name, usually based on the familiar name of the origina...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brideshead Revisited: Encyclopedia Ii - Brideshead Revisited - Catholic Themes
Taking into account the background of the author, the most significant theme of the book is Catholicism. Evelyn Waugh was a convert to Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brideshead Revisited: Encyclopedia Ii - Brideshead Revisited - The Nature Of The Relationship Between Charles And Sebastian
One continuing controversy which has struck both readers of the novel and viewers of the mini-series was the question on the nature of Ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Augustan Literature
Main article at Augustan literature The term Augustan literature derives from authors of the 1720's and 1730's themselves, who responded ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection: Encyclopedia Ii - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection - Cream Dustjacket Hardcover Collection
Most books that have Black Dustjackets were included in the Cream dustjacket collection. The only two known exceptions that are not in Cr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection: Encyclopedia Ii - Barnes & Noble Classics Collection - Children's Hardcover Collection
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain An...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Romanticism
The changing landscape of the England brought about by the steam engine has two major outcomes: the boom of industrialism with the expans...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Winchester College: Encyclopedia Ii - Winchester College - Winchester Quotations
Manners maketh man - William of Wykeham Motto of Winchester College and New College, Oxford Broad of Church and broad of mind, broad befo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - British Literature - Early Modern English Literature To 1660
The sonnet form and other Italian literary influences arrived in English literature. The sonnet was introduced into English by Thomas Wya...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vicar: Encyclopedia Ii - Vicar - Notable Vicars
In either tradition, a vicar can be the priest of a "chapel of ease", a church which is not a parish church. Non-resident canons led also...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vendée: Encyclopedia Ii - Vendée - Geography
Vendée's highest point is Mont Mercure (935 feet/285 m). The department is crossed by four rivers: the Sèvre Nantaise (135 km), the Ven...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - English Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - English Literature - Victorian Literature
Main article: Victorian literature It was in the Victorian era (1837-1901) that the novel became the leading form of literature in Englis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthony Trollope - Works
These are all novels, unless otherwise noted. Anthony Trollope - Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Warden (1855) Barchester Towers (1857)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthony Trollope - Trollope On Radio
The BBC commissioned a four-part radio adaptation of The Small House at Allington, the fifth novel of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthony Trollope - Reputation
After his death, Trollope's Autobiography appeared. It was largely this volume that led to Trollope's downfall with the critics. Even dur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anthony Trollope: Encyclopedia Ii - Anthony Trollope - Trollope On Television
The British Broadcasting Corporation has made several television drama serials based on the works of Anthony Trollope: The Pallisers, a t...   » Read the article