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The redoubtable Mrs. Trollope: Writer, mother and breadwinner.(Books)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19981227
Author:West, Woody
The headstone in the English Cemetery in Florence is inscribed, "Frances Trollope/Mother of Anthony." Writes Pamela Neville-Sington: "Anthony was Fanny's crowning achievement, yet his reputation has eclipsed her memory. She herself was far more than the mother of a famous novelist, and her own story is well worth telling."
While Anthony Trollope is secure in the pantheon of English fiction, his mother, the redoubtable Fanny, deserves more than an asterisk, and Mrs. Neville-Sington has given that vivacious soul the biography she merits.
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