Trollope’s Art

Abstract

… Critics, in his own time and since, have never been comfortable with Trollope, and have tended to take refuge in a kind of patronizing unease. During his career, nearly forty years, there was a good deal written about him. There couldn’t help being. After all, he wrote forty-seven novels, and Victorian magazines and journals, the Spectator, the Saturday Review, The Times, many others, had plenty of space. The reviewers were usually sensible and literate men. But they were puzzled.