Framley Parsonage (84 page)

1835
Halley’s Comet appears. ‘Railway mania’ in Britain

Robert Browning,
Paracelsus

His father dies in Bruges

1840
Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Penny Post introduced

Charles Dickens,
The Old Curiosity Shop
(–1841)

Dangerously ill in May and June

1841
Thomas Carlyle,
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Appointed Postal Surveyor’s Clerk for Central
District of Ireland. Moves to Banagher, King’s County (now Co. Offaly)

1843
John Ruskin,
Modern Painters
(vol. I)

Begins to write his first novel,
The Macdermots of Ballycloran

1844
Daniel O’Connell, campaigner for Catholic Emancipation, imprisoned for conspiracy; later released

William Thackeray,
The Luck of Barry Lyndon

Marries Rose Heseltine in June. Transferred to Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

1846
Famine rages in Ireland. Repeal of the Corn Laws

Dickens,
Dombey and Son
(–1848)

First son, Henry Merivale, born in March

1847
Charlotte Brontë,
Jane Eyre;
Emily Bronte,
Wuthering Heights

A second son, Frederic James Anthony, born in September

The Macdermots of Ballycloran

1848
Revolution in France; re-establishmeni of the Republic. The ‘Cabbage Patch Rebellion’ in Tipperary fails

Trollopes move to Mallow, Co. Cork

The Kellys and the O’Kellys

1850
Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
In Memoriam La

Vendée
. Writes
The Noble Jilt
, a play and the source of his later novel
Can You Forgive Her
?

1851
The Great Exhibition

Herman Melville,
Moby Dick

Sent to survey and reorganize postal system in southwest England and Wales (–1852)

1852
First pillar box in the British Isles introduced in
St Helier, Jersey, on Trollope’s recommendation

1853
Thackeray,
The Newcomes
(–1855)

Moves to Belfast to take post as Acting Surveyor for the Post Office

1854
Britain becomes involved in the Crimean War (–1856)

Appointed Surveyor of the Northern District of Ireland

1855
David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls, Zambia (Zimbabwe)

Dickens,
Little Dorrit
(–1857)

Moves to Donnybrook, Co.
Dublin

The Warden
. Writes
The New Zealander
(published 1972)

1857
Indian Mutiny (–1858)

Thomas Hughes,
Tom Brown’s Schooldays

Barchester Towers

1858
Irish Republican Brotherhood founded in Dublin

George Eliot,
Scenes of Clerical Life

Travels to Egypt, England and the West Indies on postal business

Doctor Thorne

1859
Charles Darwin,
On the Origin of Species

Leaves Ireland to settle in
Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, after being appointed Surveyor of the Eastern District of England

The Bertrams
and
The West Indies and the Spanish Main

1860
Dickens,
Great Expectations
(–1861)

Framley Parsonage
(–1861, his first serialized fiction) and
Castle Richmond

1861
American Civil War (–1865)

John Stuart Mill,
Utilitarianism
. Mrs Beeton,
Book of Household Management

Travels to USA to
research a travel book

Orley Farm
(–1862)

1862
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Last Poems

Elected to the Garrick Club

The Small House at AUington
(–1864) and
North America

1863
His mother dies in Florence

Rachel Ray

1864
Elizabeth Gaskell,
Wives and Daughters
(–1866)

Elected to the Athenaeum Club

Can You Forgive Her
? (–1865)

1865
Abraham Lincoln assassinated

Lewis Carroll,
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland

Fortnightly Review
founded by Trollope (among others)

Miss
Mackenzie, The Belton Estate
(–1866)

1866
Eliot,
Felix Holt the Radical

The Claverings
(–1867),
Nina Balatka
(–1867) and
The Last Chronicle ofBarset
(–1867)

1867
Second Reform Act extends the franchise further, enlarging the electorate to almost two million

Algernon Charles Swinburne,
A Song of Italy

Resigns from the
GPO and assumes editorship of
St Paul’s Magazine

Phineas Finn
(–1869)

1868
Last public execution in London

Wilkie Collins,
The Moonstone

Visits the US A on a postal mission; returns to England to stand unsuccessfully as a Liberal candidate for Beverley, Yorkshire

He Knew He Was Right
(–1869)

1869
Suez Canal opened

Richard Doddridge Blackmore,
Lorna Doone

The Vicar of Bullhampton
(–1870)

1870
Married Women’s Property Act passed

Dickens,
The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Resigns editorship of
St Paul’? Magazine

Ralph the Heir
(–1871),
Sir harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
, and a translation of
The Commentaries of Caesar

1871
Eliot,
Middlemarch
(–1872)

Gives up house at Waltham Cross and sails to Australia with Rose to visit his son Frederic

The Eustace Diamonds
(–1873)

1872
Thomas
Hardy,
Under the Greenwood Tree
and
A Pair of Blue Eyes
(–1873)

Travels in Australia and New Zealand and returns to England via the USA

The Golden Lion of Granpere

1873
Mill,
Autobiography

Settles in Montagu Square, London

Lady Anna
(–1874),
Phineas Redux
(–1874);
Australia and New Zealand
and
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil: A Tale of Australian Bush Life

1874
The first Impressionist Exhibition
in Paris

Hardy,
Far From the Madding Crowd

The Way We Live Now
(–1875)

1875
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

Travels to Australia, via Brindisi, Suez and Ceylon

Begins writing
An Autobiography
on his return.
The Prime Minister
(–1876)

1876
Mark Twain,
Tom Sawyer

Finishes writing
An Autobiography. The American Senator
(–1877)

1877
Henry James,
The American

Visits South Africa

Is He
Popenjoy
? (–1878)

1878
Hardy,
The Return of the Native

Sails to Iceland

John Caldigate
(–1879),
The Lady of Launay, An Eye for an Eye
(–1879) and
South Africa

1879
George Meredith,
The Egoist

Cousin Henry, The Duke’s Children
(–1880) and
Thackeray

1880
Greenwich Mean Time made the legal standard in Britain. First Anglo-Boer War (–1881)

Benjamin Disraeli,
Evfymion

Settles in South
Halting, W. Sussex

Dr Worth’s School
and
The Life of Cicero

1881
In Ireland, Parnell is arrested for conspiracy and the Land League is outlawed

Robert Louis Stevenson,
Treasure Island
(–1882)

Ayala’s Angel, The Fixed Period
(–1882) and
Marion Fay
(–1882)

1882
Phoenix Park murders in Dublin

Visits Ireland twice to research a new Irish novel, and returns to spend the winter in London. Dies
on 6 December

Kept in the Dark, Mr Scarborough’s Family
(–1883) and
The Landleaguers
(–1883, unfinished)

1883
An Autobiography
is published under the supervision of Trollope’s son Henry

1884
An Old Man’s Love

1923
The Noble Jilt

1927
London Tradesmen
(reprinted from the
Pall Man Gazette
, 1880)

1972
The New Zealander

1
The Letters of Mrs Gaskell
, ed. J. A. V. Chapple and A. Pollard (Manchester, 1966), p. 602.

2
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, ed. F. G. Kenyon (London, 1897), vol. 2, p. 391.

3
The Letters of Anthony Trollope
, ed. N. J. Hall (Stanford, Ca., 1983), (2 vols paginated as one), vol. 1, p. 89. (Referred to hereafter as
Letters.)

4
Letters, p
. 91.

5
An Autobiography
, ed. F. Page and M. Sadleir (Oxford: the
Oxford Trollope
, 1950; reprinted in
World’s Classics
, 1980), p. 141.

6
E. S. Dallas [anon], ‘Anthony Trollope’,
The Times
, 23 May 1859,12.

7
Letters
, pp. 116–17.

8
Journey to a War
(London, 1939), pp. 3 7–8.

9
Autobiography
, pp. 142–3.

10
Letters
, p. xxxii.

11
Saturday Review
, xl, 4 May 1861, 451–2.

12
William Hepworth Dixon [anon.], notice of Part One of Orles
Farm, Athenaeum
, no. 1741, 9 March 1861, 319–20.

13
British Quarterly Review
, xxxiv, July 1861, 263.

14
R. H. Hutton [anon.], obituary,
Spectator
, lv, 9 December 1882,1573–4.

15
The Art of Eating in France
, trans. N. Rootes (London, 1975),pp. 158-9.

16
Letters, p
. 141.

17
Letters
, pp. 104 and III.

18
N. N. Glisev,
Chronicle of the Life and Work of L. N. Tolstoy 1828-1890
(Moscow, 1958), p. 315; quoted by R. M. Polhemus,
The Changing World of Anthony Trollope
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968), p. 207n.

19
Autobiography
, pp. 226–7.

20
Graham Greene,
Collected Essays
(Penguin, 1970), p. 91.

21
pp. 46 and 348.

22
See R. H. Hutton [anon.], ‘From Miss Austen to Mr. Trollope’,
Spectator
, lv, 16 December 1882,1609-11.

23
p. 240

24
Autobiography
, p. 143.

25
p. 369.

26
p. 558.

27
Letters
, pp. 145-6.

28
Autobiography, p
. 139.

29
letters
, pp. 92-3.

30
Letters, p
. 131.

31
The editors wish to thank the Librarian and Trustees of Harrow School for access to the manuscript.

32
Letters
, p. 93.

33
Letters
, p. 99.

34
Letters
, p. 114.

35
Letters, p. 129.

36
Letters
, pp. 142-3.

37
Letters, p
. 250.

38
p. 414.

39
P. 57.

40
p. 402.

41
p. 482.

42
Letters
, p. 93.

43
Letters
, p. 106. See note 1 to Chapter 20.

44
See note 1 to Chapter 33.

45
See note 1 to Chapter 26.