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Thursday 8th October, 8pm (UK)
Professor Gary Watt explores how Trollope’s fiction embraces equity, mercy and forgiveness, inviting us to judge human failings with compassion rather than by rigid rules.

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Trollope and the Equitable Judgment of Human Failings

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

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Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare (1940–2026)

The Trollope Society was saddened to learn of the death of Jeffrey Archer, the bestselling novelist and former politician, who died on 5 October 2026, aged 86. Lord Archer was a...

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She had not experience enough to know how small some things are, and how few are the evils which cannot be surmounted.

Is He Popenjoy? - Chapter 28, 'What Matter If She Does?'

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Men and women when they are written about are always supposed to have fixed resolves, though in life they are so seldom found to be thus armed.

Castle Richmond - Chapter 16, The Path Beneath the Elms