Anthony Trollope: His Work, Associates and Literary Originals

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On Horse-Racing.
On Hunting.
On Shooting.
On Fishing.
On Yachting.
On Rowing.
On Alpine Climbing.
On Cricket.

Of these eight papers, which appeared in St. Paul’s Magazine, only the second, “On Hunting,” pp. 70-129 inclusive, is by Trollope, though the Preface, pp. 1-7 inclusive, is also his.

1868

LINDA TRESSEL | By the | Author of “Nina Balatka.” | In Two Volumes | William Blackwood and Sons, | Edinburgh and London | MDCCCLXVIII. | The Right of Translation is reserved. |

Page v. (unnumbered) of Vol. I. contains a list of the persons of the story.

Written in June and July 1867 for Blackwood’s Magazine, in which it appeared anonymously. Neither this nor Nina Balatka was a success, and Blackwood declined the third such tale which was ready for him. (See The Golden Lion of Granpère, 1872, below.) Trollope received £450, which was probably not more than half the sum he would have obtained had he allowed his name to appear.

1869

PHINEAS FINN, | THE IRISH MEMBER. | By | Anthony Trollope. | With Twenty Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. | In Two Volumes. | London: | Virtue & Co., 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. | 1869. | [All rights reserved.]

The total sum received for this book was £3200. Completed in May 1867, it appeared in the following October in the new St. Paul’s Magazine, founded by James Virtue, and edited by Trollope for three and a half years at a salary of £1000 a year. He attended the gallery of the House of Commons for two months in order to describe correctly the ways and doings of a Parliamentary member. It ran till May 1869. See also note to Can You Forgive Her? above.

1869

HE KNEW HE WAS | RIGHT | By Anthony Trollope | With Sixty-four Illustrations by Marcus Stone | (device of an anchor with the motto ‘Anchora Spei’) | Strahan and Company, Publishers, | 56, Ludgate Hill, London | 1869 |

First appeared in thirty-two weekly parts (the first four parts being sewed in one); from November 7, 1867 to May 22, 1868.... Price Sixpence each. The paper cover had an illustration by Marcus Stone, and the publishers were Virtue & Company, 294 City Road, and 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; New York: 12 Dey Street, the proprietors of the St. Paul’s Magazine. The total sum received for this book was £3200. It was finished during the negotiations for a postal treaty undertaken by Trollope at Washington.

1870

THE STRUGGLES | OF | BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON: | By One of the Firm. | Edited (i.e. written) by Anthony Trollope, | Author of “Framley Parsonage,” “The Last Chronicle of Barset,” &c. &c. | Reprinted from the “Cornhill Magazine.” | With Four Illustrations. | London: | Smith, Elder & Co., 15, Waterloo Place. | 1870. |

Small 8vo. In One Volume. With frontispiece and vignette title page before title page as given above; pp. iv, 254.

This ran serially in the Cornhill from August 1861 to March 1862. It was Trollope’s only—and unsuccessful—attempt at a humorous work. He received £600 for it.

The illustrations were by

1870

THE COMMENTARIES | OF | CÆSAR | By | Anthony Trollope | William Blackwood and Sons | Edinburgh and London | MDCCCLXX |

John Blackwood having started a series of Ancient Classics for English Readers under the editorship of the Rev. William Lucas Collins, he invited Trollope to write the fourth book of the new venture. Trollope chose his subject and finished the book in three months, giving it as a present to his friend the publisher. It was outside his usual line of work and was coldly received.

1870

THE | VICAR OF BULLHAMPTON. | By | Anthony Trollope. | (Vignette illustration) | With Thirty Illustrations by H. Woods. | London: | Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 11, Bouverie Street. | 1870. |

Begun at Washington in 1868 during the negotiations for a postal treaty, the day after finishing He knew He was Right, this book was intended for publication in Once a Week in 1869. Owing, however, to the dilatoriness of Victor Hugo, The Vicar of Bullhampton, and the translation of L’Homme qui Rit would thus have appeared together, and this the proprietors, Messrs. Bradbury and Evans, naturally deemed unsuitable. They offered Trollope publication in the Gentleman’s Magazine, but he refused with some heat, and they then issued the work in eight parts, paying him the sum of £2500.

This book was written with the intention of exciting pity and sympathy for a fallen woman, and the author so far departed from his usual principle as to affix a preface, which he reprinted in his Autobiography (Vol. II., 177), in support of his subject.

1870

AN EDITOR’S TALES | By Anthony Trollope | (the device of an anchor with the words “Anchora Spei”) | Strahan & Co., Publishers | 56, Ludgate Hill, London | 1870.