Besieged by Female Writers
John Pemble: Trollope’s Late Style, 3 November 2016
Anthony Trollope’s Late Style: Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form
by Frederik Van Dam.
Edinburgh, 180 pp., £70, January 2016,978 0 7486 9955 1 Show More
by Frederik Van Dam.
Edinburgh, 180 pp., £70, January 2016,
“... there was no doubt that more women than men were reading them. For most of the 1860s, Mrs Henry Wood and Margaret Oliphant outsold not only Trollope, but Dickens and Thackeray too. In the 1870s, it was George Eliot who reigned, and when Hardy’s Far from the Madding Crowd appeared in 1874 the Spectator declared that she must be its real author, and that if ... ”