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VALERIE HILL: Failing to deliver a Victorian ideal.(Features)
From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Date: 20041015
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Byline: VALERIE HILL
IT WAS Anthony Trollope's big idea. Not content with writing countless novels, not only still read today, but also keeping television costume drama departments going, Tony Trollope displayed an intensely practical streak, too.
Far from being an airy-fairy, arty-farty type, Trollope, with the true vigour of a Victorian polymath, devised the impressively practical idea of the postal service.
Post men in fine scarlet jackets were soon to be seen across the land, distributing the mail. It was the ideal solution to the pressing problem of needing ...
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