An Autobiography

First published in 1883, this two-volume autobiography reveals the tricks of the trade of one of Britain's most celebrated authors.

Anthony Trollope (Author)

9781108070478, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 February 2014

240 pages
21.6 x 14.1 x 1.4 cm, 0.33 kg

One of the most celebrated and prolific authors of the Victorian era, Anthony Trollope (1815–82) requested that his autobiography be published posthumously. The two-volume work, first published in 1883 and reissued here in the second edition of that year, recounts his childhood, successful career at the Post Office, and multiple achievements as a writer. Well received by the critics of the time, the work reveals the incredible discipline that enabled Trollope to write forty-seven novels in the course of his career. Of particular interest to literary scholars, the reflections on his early life show how his unhappy childhood and his father's financial problems influenced his fiction. Volume 2 goes into greater detail on Trollope's writing technique, and includes his thoughts on fellow writers and literary criticism. Two of Trollope's non-fiction works, North America (1862) and Australia and New Zealand (1873), have also been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

11. The Claverings, the Pall Mall Gazette, Nina Balatka, and Linda Tressel
12. On novels and the art of writing them
13. On English novelists of the present day
14. On criticism
15. The Last Chronicle of Barset - Leaving the Post Office - St Paul's Magazine
16. Beverley
17. The American postal treaty
18. The Vicar of Bullhampton - Sir Harry Hotspur - An Editor's Tales - Caesar
19. Ralph the Heir - The Eustace Diamonds - Lady Anna - Australia
20. The Way We Live Now and The Prime Minister.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF]