Trollope
Americannoun
noun
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Anthony . 1815–82, English novelist. His most successful novels, such as The Warden (1855), Barchester Towers (1857), and Dr Thorne (1858), are those in the Barsetshire series of studies of English provincial life. The Palliser series of political novels includes Phineas Redux (1874) and The Prime Minister (1876)
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Joanna . born 1943, British novelist: her works include The Choir (1988), A Village Affair (1989), The Rector's Wife (1991), The Best of Friends (1995), and The Girl From the South (2002)
Other Word Forms
- Trollopean adjective
- Trollopian adjective
Example Sentences
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It sounds like something out of a Trollope novel—a well-behaved boy lapping up statecraft over dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
A fellow novelist said Trollope had "a gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times".
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
On an 1861 trip to the United States, the English novelist Anthony Trollope marveled that Americans consumed twice as much beef as Englishmen.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2024
Where American television hustles to turn recently published beach reads into prestige series, literary classics — Austen, Dickens, Trollope, Waugh, et al. — have long been the bread and butter of British broadcasting.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2023
"A quoi pensez-vous, Madame Trollope?" said she: "vous avez l'air de m�diter."
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton
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