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This Christmas, enjoy our Trollope and Millais card offer and join us for a BIG READ of Christmas at Thompson Hall, our Christmas Quiz, and more.

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Anthony Trollope was one of the most successful, prolific and respected novelists of the Victorian era.

His perceptive novels remain relevant today, and his reputation continues to grow with each passing year.

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The Trollope Society has a world-wide membership and exists to promote Anthony Trollope's works, provide a forum for exploring his life, and encourage the enjoyment of his writing for future generations.

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Joanna Trollope, CBE

It is with deep sadness that the Trollope Society records the death of Joanna Trollope CBE, the distinguished novelist and broadcaster, who died on 11 December 2025, aged 82. Alongside...

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Who does not know that vices which may be treated with tenderness, almost with complaisance, while they are kept in the background, became monstrous, prodigious, awe-inspiring when they are made public?

John Caldigate - Chapter 30, The Conclave at Puritan Grange

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Events calendar

We have restarted our in-person events, we also have an extensive programme of Zoom events planned, so you can still join us online and meet other Trollope enthusiasts from all over the world.

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I am not sure that those whose boyhoods are so protracted have the worst of it ... Fruit that grows ripe the quickest is not the sweetest; nor when housed and garnered will it keep the longest.

Orley Farm