Anthony Trollope
The life
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist who wrote before breakfast for three hours a day, by his watch, at 250 words a quarter-hour, and produced forty-seven novels without ever giving up his job at the Post Office — where he introduced the pillar box to Britain. The Barsetshire and Palliser sequences are his monuments. His posthumous Autobiography, confessing the method, damaged his reputation for fifty years.
The Belton Estate
448 pages — the shortest way into Trollope, not the greatest.
Mrs. Amedroz, the wife of Bernard Amedroz, Esq.[1], of Belton Castle, and mother of Charles and Clara Amedroz, died when those children were only eight and six years old, thereby subjecting them to the greatest misfortune which children born in that sphere of life can be made to suffer.
