The issue of decimalisation is a running theme throughout the Palliser novels. Plantagenet Palliser strives to simplify the currency and make the country ‘count in tens’, but to no avail.

This was a period when social class and status were still rigidly defined, although a strong, and increasingly wealthy, middle class tended to have aspirations for advancement and influence.

Many Trollope enthusiasts will be fully aware of the considerable work undertaken by Professor Steven Amarnick and his team in reconstructing the original text of The Duke’s Children from the...

According to biographer Victoria Glendinning, Anthony Trollope not only did not like the celebration itself, but would go to bed on Christmas Eve pretending to be sick.

New York-based writer, traveler, and history buff, Jonathan Russo welcomes Dominic Edwardes, Chair of the Trollope Society, to discuss the uncanny similarities between Trollope's writings and today's financial world.

Stephen Butler is an Antiquarian Book & Manuscript dealer who will sell any book in his vicinity with the exception of his own collection of Trollope in The World’s Classics.

Those accustomed to think of Trollope writing of British middle and upper class people in drawing rooms are in for a surprise when they read Trollope’s short story masterpiece, “Malachi’s Cove.”

Faced with a thicket of plotlines, I'm going to take three paths through them: firstly, Felix and his entanglements with Ruby and Marie; then Melmotte's election campaign and money matters; and saving the best till last, Paul and Mrs Hurtle.

In Chapters 29-42, the themes of greed and love prevail, with healthy servings of duplicity, snobbery, despair, neglect, domestic violence, and fraud.

Dr Ellen Moody’s introduction to the final ten chapters of Doctor Thorne, given at the Zoom BIG READ on 15th March 2021.