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Article: Trollope.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 15, 1992
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Economist Newspaper Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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TROLLOPE. By Victoria Glendinning. Hutchinson; 551 pages; Pounds20. To be published in America by Knopf
THE best of Trollope's biographies, it has often been said, is his autobiography. Published after his death, it firmly set the pattern: a paranoiac and under-achieving father and a courageous, bustling mother, a miserable childhood and hobbledehoy young manhood, and then a late blossoming that led to a contented marriage and a prosperous career both as an administrator in the Post Office and as a popular novelist.
The autobiography is carefully crafted, to convey the impression that Trollope wished it to convey. It has its reticences. There is little about ...