Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 - December 6, 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and inter-gender issues and conflicts of his day.
Trollope's popularity continues into the present day (some famous fans being Sir Alec Guinness, who never travelled without a Trollope novel, ex-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir John Major, and American mystery novelist Sue Grafton); his literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, for reasons detailed below, but he had regained his foothold amongst critics somewhat by the mid-twentieth century.
