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Victorian writer Frances Trollope has largely been relegated to a mere footnote in literary history as simply the mother of Anthony. Equally unfortunate is that, aside from her nonfiction work Domestic Manners of the Americans, her 34 novels have been out of print since the nineteenth century. She was, nonetheless, the most provocative female writer of the early Victorian period who used the novel to impel social change. She has been credited for writing the first anti-slavery novel that predates Uncle Tom's Cabin, along with a number of works that incited reform legislation regarding bastardy clauses, poor laws, and labor conditions.
Expert contributors examine her life and writings, her social activism, and the impact of her works. The book includes discussions of her influence on Anthony Trollope, the rivalry between Frances Trollope and Charles Dickens, her belief in the power of female friendship, her ambivalence toward the ability of women to effect social change, her thoughts on Evangelicalism, her views on women and aging, and her innovative contribution to early crime fiction. Contributors argue for the value of reprinting her novels and travel books and point to her enduring literary legacy.
Contents
Preface Apis Trollopiana: An Introduction To The Nearly Extinct Trollope by Brenda Ayres The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman by Pamela Neville-Sington Mrs. Frances Trollope: Triumphant Female Friendship in the Nineteenth Century by Helen Heineman Michael Armstrong: Rereading the Industrial Plot by Priti Joshi "Fair, Fat, and Forty": Social Redress and Fanny Trollope's Literary Activism by Ann-Barbara Graff A "Serious Epidemic": Frances Trollope and the Evangelical Movement by Douglas Murray Marriageable at Midlife: The Remarrying Widows of Frances Trollope and Anthony Trollope by Kay Heath Figuring Age and Race: Frances Trollope's Matronalia by Mary Wilson Carpenter Putting Idiosyncrasy in Its Place: Michael Armstrong in Light of Trollope's Early Fiction by Constance Harsh The Intriguing Case of Hargrave: A Tragi-Comdey of Manners by Linde Katritzky Fanny Who? by Linda Abess Ellis Frances Trollope's "Modern" Influence: Creating New Fictions, New Readers, a New World by Susan S. Kissell Bibliography Index
