Trollope: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Family Memorials....Pages 1-4
Three Wolves Trollope....Pages 4-5
A Very Lively, Pleasant Young Woman....Pages 6-8
A Very Unhappy Man....Pages 8-15
You Will Often Find Him Idle and Plaguing Enough....Pages 15-23
The Most Slovenly and Dirty Boy I Ever Met....Pages 23-25
A Heart-sick, Friendless Little Chap’s Exaggerations....Pages 25-28
A Situation and a Setback....Pages 28-30
The Damned Sassenach....Pages 30-37
‘Fine Imagination’ — ‘Admirable Cross Examiner’....Pages 37-45
Booted and Spurred....Pages 45-49
Such Delicious Feuds....Pages 50-56
Raw Beef Steak and the Giant Refreshed....Pages 56-63
Triton in a Shoal of Minnows....Pages 63-65
A Trojan of the Name of Trollope....Pages 65-70
At the Villino Trollope....Pages 70-75
As If Some Giant Had Hewn a Great Lump Out of the Earth....Pages 75-81
A Comfort For Any Editor....Pages 82-86
Waltham House....Pages 86-93
Golf at Strathtyrum....Pages 93-96
Authors Never Forget....Pages 97-100
His Characters Were to Him Absolutely Real....Pages 100-107
An Editor’s Discomfort....Pages 107-112
No Keener Sportsman....Pages 112-120
A Man One Would Hardly Choose to Confide In....Pages 120-126
He is a Perfect Cordial to Me....Pages 126-129
Oh, For Some More Brave Trollope....Pages 129-134
One of the Heartiest, Most Genuine, Moral and Generous Men We Know....Pages 134-140
His Manners Were Rough and, So to Speak, Tumultuous....Pages 140-145
He Glowed, A Conversational Stove....Pages 146-152
You Are Not Man Enough To Eat Two Breakfasts?....Pages 152-154
At the Club....Pages 154-159
Many-sided Geniality....Pages 160-166
A Thorough Englishman....Pages 166-170
Lampoon, Satire and Verse Tribute....Pages 170-178
Australia and New Zealand....Pages 178-187
Cobbler’s Wax on the Seat....Pages 187-194
Not One Scrap of Sentimentality About Him....Pages 194-199
He Was a Knowing Psychologist....Pages 199-205
The Most Enthusiastic of Men....Pages 205-212
As Obstinate as a Pig....Pages 212-214
‘Please Leave My Coat Alone’....Pages 214-220
He Talked as Well and as Heartily as Usual....Pages 220-227
How Simple, How Straightforward, How Sincere He Was....Pages 227-236
The Last Days....Pages 236-241
Such a Very Thorough Gentleman....Pages 241-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-257