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Article: Joanna Trollope, ed. and Intro. Anthony Trollope: An Illustrated Autobiography.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
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- December 22, 1990
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Joanna Trollope, ed. and Intro. Anthony Trollope: An Illustrated Autobiography. Wolfeboro, NH: Alan Sutton, 1989.
If you adopted as pen name the distinctive surname of a famous dead writer, and you bring out an edition of his autobiography introduced by yourself, wouldn't the public tend to think you were a descendant of that writer? The situation presents an interesting "case of conscience" such as those collected by the ancient writer Cicero in his De Officiis, the book that of all classical texts Anthony Trollope loved best. In the De Officiis there is the case of a man who inherits an estate according to the will the courts have in hand, but that man knows of ...