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Article: Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: the gaps in the record.
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- Victorian Newsletter
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Ward Hellstrom. 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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I assure you my aim is not the chronicling of "celebrities." It has so happened that fate has thrust them upon me. There is but one Landor, one Mrs. Browning, one Ristori, one Dickens and one Kemble. Kate Field to Miss [Olive?] Logan, 19 March 1868. (1)
Virtually everything known about Kate Field and Anthony Trollope's relationship depends upon only four sources: 1) Trollope's twenty-four letters to Field in the Boston Public Library, one of which concludes with "a kiss that shall be semi-paternal--one-third brotherly, and as regards the small remainder, as loving as you please" (Letters 2:438 passim). 2) Field's unsigned review of North America in the ...