Facts about Anthony Trollope
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Born in London in 1815, Anthony Trollope attended Harrow School and Winchester College but struggled academically due to his family's severe financial difficulties.
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Trollope's autobiography, published posthumously in 1883, revealed his precise daily writing routine and candid assessments of his own literary works, shocking Victorian society with its unflinching honesty about commercial motivations.
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Trollope's 1875 novel The Way We Live Now satirized Victorian financial speculation and became his most critically acclaimed work, influencing generations of social commentary literature.
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The Eustace Diamonds, published in 1872, became Trollope's first serialized novel to appear in The Fortnightly Review, reaching approximately 10,000 weekly readers through its 20-part serialization.
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Trollope's novel Barchester Towers sold over 3,000 copies in its first year after publication in 1857, establishing him as a commercially successful author.
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Between 1847 and 1876, Trollope completed 29 works of fiction while maintaining full-time employment as a Post Office official across Ireland, England, and Egypt.
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Trollope served as a Member of Parliament for Beverley in 1868, though he lost his seat after just one year due to electoral redistricting.
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In 1867, Trollope's novel The Last Chronicle of Barset concluded his six-book Barsetshire series, spanning 16 years of publication and establishing the interconnected fictional universe.
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Trollope wrote 47 novels across his lifetime, maintaining a disciplined schedule of 250 words every 15 minutes during his early morning writing sessions.
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During his 33-year postal career, Anthony Trollope introduced the pillar box to Britain in 1852 while working as a surveyor's clerk in Ireland.