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Summer Picnic

Sunday 18th August, 2019

Join us for a Trollopian ‘bring and share’ picnic in Kensington Gardens. We will informally be discussing Ayala’s Angel and enjoying the gardens and hopefully the sunshine!

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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. In 2015 we celebrated the bicentenary of his birth on 24th April, 1815.

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

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Anthony Trollope and me

Dominic Edwardes, the Trollope Society's new Chair, talks about his enthusiasm for Trollope and the Society.

... whenever I was at a loss for something to read, I reached for a Trollope.

Dominic and Trollope

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Everybody’s Business

Mr Scarborough’s Family

By: Lucia Costanzo

[Mr Scarborough’s family] – cynical, and for its period, daring – shows the power of sustained and dexterous raillery. Michael Sadleir 'Trollope: A Commentary', 1927 So the question is… who is laughing...

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With all of us, in the opinion which we form of those around us, we take unconsciously the opinion of others. A woman is handsome because the world says so. Music is charming to us because it charms others. We drink our wine with other men's palates, and look at our pictures with other men's eyes.

The Last Chronicle of Barset

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