Dr Nicholas Shrimpton discusses the writing, publication and reception of Trollope’s The American Senator.

Nicholas Shrimpton is an Emeritus Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. He is the editor of Trollope’s The Prime Minister (2011), An Autobiography (2014), and The Warden (2014) for Oxford World’s Classics.

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing of The American Senator
• Download The American Senator free of charge from Project Gutenberg
• Trollopiana Archive – ‘A Victorian Novel ~ Trollope’s The American Senator‘ by Clement Greenberg, Trollopiana 38, August 1997

Map of Dillsborough

Reproduced from A Guide to Trollope by Winifred Gregory Geroud and James Thayer Gerould with drawings by Florence W Ewing.

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