Talk:Anthony Trollope

message: Took out "Other novels include Cousin Henry and Dr Wortle's School, both probing psychological and moral studies in the vein of The Warden"  These can hardly be considered his best work. Clarityfiend 05:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal

message: If he returned to England in 1859, as stated in the section "Time In Ireland", then the paragraph commencing His first major success came with The Warden (1855)... in "Return to England" is anachronistic and should be in the former section. jiHymas@himivest.com 216.191.217.90 20:15, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Return to England

message: I'd like to add a link like:
*Free to read on a cell phone - Anthony Trollope works.
to the External Links section. This links to a list of Trollope books that you can download to read on a cell phone. I have read quite a few from this site and got a lot of value out being able to read the PD texts away from the PC.
The texts are Public Domain in the US, just like Project Gutenberg, they are packaged with the reader and available under a creative commons licence (share if (attribution, non-commercial, no derivative) ). The site is non-commercial without registration, subscription, or advertising. The texts as packaged together with the reader as a java program that runs on cell phones, this is a way for people to access the authors work that adds to the range in the existing external links (hopefully translating to more reading going on).
I checked WP:EL and the link seems appropriate:
* What should be linked: '...should link to a site hosting a copy of the work if none of the "Links normally to be avoided" criteria apply.'
* Links normally to be avoided: it seems only #8 might apply; 'Direct links to documents that require external applications (such as Flash or Java) to view the relevant content...'. The site lets you download java programs that only run on a J2ME environment, this means most/all current cell phones. So although they are limited to being read on a phone they do add an access method to all the others in the existing External Links, in the same way that LibriVox adds a format but requires an mp3 player.
Filomath 01:03, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposed external link 

message: Ireland isn’t one place: shouldn’t the article say where specifically in Ireland Trollope lived and worked? I know he lived for a while in Belfast, and worked in its magnificent Custom House. But, since I’m benighted on the details, I hope some aficionados can add the specifics. Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dedalus22 (talk • contribs) 08:36, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time in Ireland 

message: Please, could some one add a section on Anthony Trollope writing style?
thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.49.165 (talk) 18:08, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing Style 

message: Please, someone who understands reflist, correct the spelling in note # 10.  
Ragityman (talk) 05:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  sp.: Londom 

message: There is a block quotation from Henry James in the "Works and reputation" section, attributed to "an essay shortly after the novelist's death."  I searched for a source and found that the block quotation is pretty much faithful to James's compilation Partial Portraits, published in 1888 - see .  But the actual essay appeared in The Century in 1883 and has some significant wording changes - see .  Does anyone know the background on this - was it a habit of James to silently revise his works when republishing them?  Which source should be direct-quoted here?  More recent sources I have seen that quote this passage use the Partial Portraits version, and for now I will keep it in this article with ref to the source. Zariane (talk) 16:03, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Block quotation from Henry James 

message: For future reference, I just put all of Project Gutenberg's Trollope ebooks into Wikipedia templates, and saved the results here. I've been through all the current articles and ensured that they have templates, but any new articles should also have a template added if possible. NotFromUtrecht (talk) 14:30, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project Gutenberg links 

message: (Trollope's father) failed at the bar due to his bad temper. I am not at all clear what the editor concerned meant here but I don't think this is appropriate. Please would someone fix it. Eddaido (talk) 11:16, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I'd like to delete the final paragraph in the "Works and reputation" section of the current version of the article: "Notable fans have included..."  Since this paragraph has been part of the article for a while, though, I'll put it up for discussion here before doing the WP:BOLD thing and deleting it.
My problem with this paragraph is that it's just a list of notable people who liked Trollope, with no indication that Trollope actually had any effect on their areas of notability.  For instance, it lists three prime ministers (two UK, one Canadian), but doesn't suggest that Trollope affected their politics in any way.  It lists writers, but doesn't say whether Trollope had any significant effect on their writing.
I'd suggest deleting this paragraph altogether.  If we find a reliable source to verify that Trollope was, in fact, a major influence on a writer or politician, we can include that.  However, a mere list of notable people who enjoyed Trollope conveys little useful information to the reader. — Ammodramus (talk) 01:58, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eliminate "Notable fans..." paragraph? 

message: I've altered the following:
"The Muse, in their view, might prove immensely prolific, but she would never ever follow a schedule.[...]The Muse, claimed the critics, should not be aware of money."
The meaning of these sentences is a bit opaque - people were not angry with Trollope, but indignant on behalf of "the Muse? - and the link cited is from a book by John D Barry, published in 1915, which doesn't mention the Muses at all. It simply says that at the time Trollope's Autobiography was published, people liked to think of writers as "inspired," even "as doing their work by means of a divine agency," adding, "As if we did not all do our work by a divine agency no matter what the work may be." This sounds like a general reference to any deity. There is also no reference to a writer's interest in money, or people's view of how "the Muse" should feel about money. 
I've removed references to "the Muse" and said instead "when Trollope revealed that he strictly adhered to a daily writing quota, and admitted that he wrote for money, he confirmed his critics' worst fears.[52] Writers were expected to wait for inspiration, not to follow a schedule.[53]" Sadiemonster (talk) 08:28, 8 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Muse 

message: So far there's no mention of his trip to the West Indies - and he even wrote a book about it. Any reason for that?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:E3C4:D400:F4F8:E37A:ED56:9827 (talk) 22:56, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Nor of the shockingly racist commentary in the resulting book about the trip.  Made my hair curl. Researching… Tim Bray (talk) 05:18, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trollope in the West Indies 

message: I just added clarify-span to "Early Works." From the other references & what they appear to be justifying, I would guess that during Trollope's life, or at least at the time the critics were writing, that nobody particularly objected to those critics who claimed he was more influenced by England or harmed by Ireland. It was only recently that MODERN critics said this was bigoted. In which case we should say something like "More recently, such critics have been dismissed..." [cites recent revisionist criticism]. But that's just a guess, and somebody should clarify what this statement means. I tried, but I couldn't (easily) get the text of the works cited to prove the claim in the first place. Dingsuntil (talk) 19:29, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify critical dismissal