Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington

Jane Nardin (National University of Singapore)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Jessica Gossling (Goldsmiths College, University of London)

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First circulation or publication 1862 - 1864

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England (Country of Origin)

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The fourth of Anthony Trollope's novels set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire,

Framley Parsonage

, appeared in the

Cornhill Magazine

in 1860-61. This delightfully pastoral story, with its muted conflicts and happy resolution, was a huge success with both the reviewers and the public. But a very different fate met the short novel which Trollope serialized in the

Cornhill

in 1862,

The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson

, a labored spoof on the advertising industry. The

Westminster Review

went so far as to assert that most readers “were unwilling to believe that the author of ‘Framley Parsonage' could have written such unmitigated rubbish.”

Hoping to recover his public and to repair the damage to his reputation, Trollope planned a fifth Barsetshire novel as his next contribution

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Citation: Nardin, Jane. "The Small House at Allington". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 05 April 2006 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7766, accessed 25 November 2024.]

Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington

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