Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was born in 1815 and grew up in straitened circumstances, his father, a barrister, having lost his clientele; it was his mother who supported the family by writing. He joined the Post Office, stayed there thirty-three years, worked in Ireland, and introduced the street letter box to the United Kingdom. He wrote every morning for three hours before going to his office, at the rate of two hundred and fifty words every quarter of an hour, and published forty-seven novels. His posthumous autobiography, in which he admits to writing by the clock and for money, cost him the critics' esteem for a long time.

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• NovelThe WardenAnthony Trollope · 1855LiteraturePublic domain