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Frances Eleanor Trollope
1835–1913
A Victorian novelist and biographer, she moved through theatrical, literary, and cosmopolitan circles before becoming part of the famous Trollope family. She is especially remembered for writing a lively two-volume life of her mother-in-law, Frances Milton Trollope.
6 Audiobooks
That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 3
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
A Charming Fellow, Volume I
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
A Charming Fellow, Volume III
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
A Charming Fellow, Volume II
by Frances Eleanor Trollope
About the author
Born Frances Eleanor Ternan on August 1, 1835, she was an English novelist who grew up in a theatrical family. Her sister Ellen Ternan is often noted for her connection to Charles Dickens, and Frances herself later married the writer Thomas Adolphus Trollope, linking her to one of the best-known literary families of the 19th century.
She wrote fiction as well as biography, publishing novels and contributing to the busy world of Victorian literature. Readers today most often encounter her through Frances Trollope: Her Life and Literary Work from George III to Victoria (1895), her substantial account of Frances Milton Trollope, which helped preserve the story of an important earlier novelist.
Her life joined several worlds at once — the stage, the Victorian novel, and the expatriate literary society around the Trollopes in Italy and England. She died on August 14, 1913, leaving behind a body of work that offers a quieter but still fascinating path into 19th-century literary culture.