Escott knew Trollope from his own boyhood and later as a fellow journalist and clubman. He follows the novelist’s miserable schooling, his career in the Post Office, the Irish years that produced The Macdermots, his travels round the world on official business, and the friends, politicians and acquaintances who supplied the originals for figures in the novels.
Rich in personal recollection, it will please every reader of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels. Download the free EPUB.