tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post7517840782627217544..comments2024-03-29T15:04:20.549+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: Literary visitor to Australian shores: Anthony TrollopeHelshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-21316768781285846572015-01-17T14:37:41.712+11:002015-01-17T14:37:41.712+11:00Trollope Fan
Frederic was sent to Australia as a ...Trollope Fan<br /><br />Frederic was sent to Australia as a teenager, to clean up his act and to return to his parents in the UK at 21. Instead he loved Australia, married a local, did not invite his parents to the wedding, had 8 children and ran 10,000 sheep. As far as I can see, Frederic didn't even want to visit the UK again.<br /><br />There are two sources of information about Frederic. The more focused analysis is The Life and Letters of Anthony Trollope's Son in Australia which was edited by Peter D Edwards (Queensland UP 1982). A very wide ranging book is Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939 by Susannah Fullerton (Picador 2009). Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-6309480790862449542015-01-17T14:31:55.748+11:002015-01-17T14:31:55.748+11:00Parnassus
that seems true in all New World Countr...Parnassus<br /><br />that seems true in all New World Countries. _We_ think we are bigger, cleaner, sunnier, more pioneering, more future-focused, more energetic, more democratic. _They_ (the old colonial rulers) believed they were more historical, more traditional, better educated, more cultured, had better architecture and were more skilled in government. Hurt feelings were inevitable.<br /><br />I bet Frances Trollope's books, especially Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), went down like a lead balloon in the USA.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-35091372476724275322015-01-17T09:00:48.775+11:002015-01-17T09:00:48.775+11:00Family relationships are always so tricky, even fo...Family relationships are always so tricky, even for famous authors. What hapened to Fred?Trollope Fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-27746230554374151442015-01-17T06:31:39.749+11:002015-01-17T06:31:39.749+11:00Hello Hels, Perhaps the Australians had nothing a...Hello Hels, Perhaps the Australians had nothing against Trollope, it's just that they were leery of any foreign author coming on a tour of inspection. The general pattern was to take a look around, then state with considerable vitriol that things were better in the home country. <br /><br />Even now, America has not completely recovered from the singeing that was the result of Trollope's mother Frances visiting in the 1830's. Dickens was not much kinder, but I seem to recall that Kipling's American Notes took a less critical view, although the book is still very perceptive.<br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.com