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Friss illustrates, without quite articulating, the central Trollopean social insight: like-minded people with similar passions typically end up fighting among themselves far more than they do with their class or intellectual opponents.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 5, 2015

The base of this living pyramid is an English village near the Trollopean cathedral town of Barchester; the village is Stilbourne, appropriately named, since it encloses so many deformed and abortive lives.

From Time Magazine Archive

Country life in Victorian England with a full-blown Trollopean cast of characters Follow Me Down, by Shelby Foote.

From Time Magazine Archive

As a result, about one-fifth of England's clergy gloom about in ghost parishes with a handful of communicants and faintly Trollopean titles.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a good caricature of this in an American book, I forget its title, written some time ago, to show the simplicity, gullibility, and vindictivness of our Trollopean travellers.

From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry