Trollope

American  

[trol-uhp] / ˈtrɒl əp /

noun

1. Anthony, 1815–82, English novelist.

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Trollope British  

/ 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)

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Other Word Forms

• Trollopean adjective
• Trollopian adjective

Example Sentences

It sounds like something out of a Trollope novel—a well-behaved boy lapping up statecraft over dinner.

From The Wall Street Journal

A fellow novelist said Trollope had "a gift for putting her finger on the problem of the times".

From BBC

Trollope's books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and several have been adapted for television.

From BBC

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

From Los Angeles Times

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