Speakers from the Trollope Society’s ‘Women in Trollope’ conference, held at Somerville College in September 2023, will be presenting their talks on Zoom throughout 2024.

Fiona Cameron selected a passage from Hunting Sketches for a reading at the conference dinner and explores the topic of Trollope and hunting further.

Anthony Trollope and Hunting

Fiona Cameron first discovered Trollope through his Hunting Sketches, then, like any others fell for him after watching The Pallisers on television. She is a silversmith living in Worcestershire with two hairy cobs and her husband.

I’m hoping to take you on a day’s hunting, it will be a fictitious day as it draws on many days that I’ve had. I’m not here to argue the rights and wrongs of hunting, that has, and will carry on, being done elsewhere. I’m hoping to introduce you to the sport that Trollope loved and that he used to such excellent advantage in his books also to show you at the same time the differences and similarities that he’d notice if he came out today.