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Straight from the pages of Trollope The novelist's themes of moral bankruptcy and desire for riches were germinated in two houses which have come on to the market, writes Caroline McGhie

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20060115
Author:Caroline McGhie

The houses people live in as children so often bear witness to life-moulding events. In the houses of Anthony Trollope's youth lie the tangled plots of later best-selling novels and the shifting social circumstances that were to make him such a brilliant chronicler of upper middle class Victorian England.

Two key houses of his childhood are now on the market at the same time. Both are at Harrow-on-the-Hill, and both were acquired as status symbols to reflect his father's initial success as a lawyer and hopes of a large inheritance - both lost in debt and bankruptcy later. It is a story of our ...

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