CHRONOLOGY
1815 Born in
Bloomsbury,
1816 Family moves
to a country house near
1822 Becomes a day
boy at
1825 Transfers to
Arthur Drury's private school at Sunbury.
1827 Goes to his
father's old school,
1830 Depleted
finances force his spring return to
1832 His mother,
Frances, publishes Domestic Manners of the Americans, a
satiric novel that, though widely disliked in
1834 Unable to win
a university scholarship, Trollope moves with his family to
1834-1841 Finds
work in
1841-1845
Transfers to
1845-1859
Earns promotion to a post in
1847-1848 Publishes his first novel, The Macdermots
of Ballycloran, searching for the
sources of Irish discontent, and The Kellys and the O'Kellys, another political novel. Neither does well.
1855 Publishes The
Warden;, the first of the Barset chronicles, a series of six novels set in the
imaginary
1857 Publishes Barchester Towers,
a Barset novel.
1858 Publishes Doctor
Thorne, a Barset novel depicting the
caste system of landed property-holders.
1861 Publishes Framley Parsonage,
a Barset novel.
1864 Publishes The
Small House at Allington, a Barset novel.
1867 Publishes The Last Chronicle of Barset,
the last of the Barset novels. Over the years of the Barset chronicles, Trollope writes every morning, from 5:30
to 8:30, before going to work at the post office, at the rate of 1000 words per
hour.
1865-1880 Publishes a second series of novels, the political novels,
less witty and humorous but more difficult and complex than the Barset series. These novels, covering the lives of the Plantagenet
Palliser family, include Can You Forgive Her? (1865), Phineas Finn
(1869), Ralph the Heir (1871), The Eustace
Diamonds (1873), Phineas Redux (1874), The Prime Minister
(1876) and The Duke's Children (1880). They depict the inner political
workings of the House of Commons, the political clubs, and the social
entertainments of the great political hostesses.
1868 Resigns from
the civil service to become the Liberal party candidate for Beverley in the
House of Commons.
1875 Travels to
1882 After years
of depression and seclusion in a
1883 Autobiography
is published posthumously, along with two novels: The Landleaguers
and Mr.
[This chronology is based in part on Karen
Lawrence, Betsy Seifert, and Lois Ratner, The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature (New York:
McGraw-Hill, 1985), pp. 221-23.]
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