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Kate Field and Anthony Trollope: the gaps in the record.

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From: Victorian Newsletter
Date: 20060322
Author:Scharnhorst, Gary

I assure you my aim is not the chronicling of "celebrities." It has so happened that fate has thrust them upon me. There is but one Landor, one Mrs. Browning, one Ristori, one Dickens and one Kemble. Kate Field to Miss [Olive?] Logan, 19 March 1868. (1)

Virtually everything known about Kate Field and Anthony Trollope's relationship depends upon only four sources: 1) Trollope's twenty-four letters to Field in the Boston Public Library, one of which concludes with "a kiss that shall be semi-paternal--one-third brotherly, and as regards the small remainder, as loving as you ...

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