Trollope

[trol-uhp]

noun

1. Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.

Trollope

/ ˈtrɒləp /

noun

1. 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)

2. 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

• Trollopian adjective
• Trollopean adjective

Example Sentences

I do know that I’ve long lived inside the books of Trollope, Dickens, Austen, Gaskell.

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On an 1861 trip to the United States, the English novelist Anthony Trollope marveled that Americans consumed twice as much beef as Englishmen.

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“They go around the roundabout nine times out of 10 the wrong way,” said Tredegar councillor Haydn Trollope.

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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.

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“I know a lot of these young men who are at a somewhat awkward stage, like Trollope’s hobbledehoy, caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood,” says Schine.

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