Trollopiana 132

Number 132 ~ Autumn 2025


Trollopiana (Print) ISSN 2976-7539
Trollopiana (Online) ISSN 2976-7547


FEATURES

Trollope as Prophet: The Way We Live Now (1875)

Professor Dinah Birch examines Trollope’s The Way We Live Now, exploring its satire, prophetic power, and modern relevance in exposing greed, dishonesty, and the troubling persistence of financial and moral corruption.

A Toast to the Trollope and Thackeray Societies on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the First Book Publication of The Way We Live Now

Dr Nicholas Shrimpton reflects on Trollope and Thackeray’s complex friendship, shared clubs, literary rivalries, and mutual admiration, before proposing a joint toast to the Trollope and Thackeray Societies on this anniversary occasion.

Visit to Kensal Green Cemetery

Members of the Trollope Society marked The Way We Live Now’s 150th anniversary with a literary tour of Kensal Green Cemetery, visiting Trollope’s grave and other literary figures.

Asunder The Mistletoe

Mike Lewis’s story Asunder the Mistletoe playfully reimagines Trollope’s The Mistletoe Bough, blending book-group debate, romance, and forgiveness in a contemporary Christmas setting with echoes of Victorian tradition.

REGULARS

Omnium Gatherum

A collection of all sorts of things of interest to Trollopians.


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