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Fanny Trollope: The Life and Adventures of a Clever Woman.(Review)
From: The Women's Review of Books
Date: 19990201
Author:Carpenter, Mary Wilson
By Pamela Neville-Sington. New York: Viking, 1998, 398 pp., $29.95 hardcover.
Pamela Neville-Sington begins her biography of Frances Trollope with a quote from Anthony Trollope's "condescending portrait" of his mother, and comments that "if Fanny is remembered at all today, it is as an admittedly courageous and hard-working woman who nevertheless neglected her talented son, and was herself a second-rate writer, a political dilettante and a bit of a snob." Taking this assessment as her starting point, she embarks on a revisionary account of the life of Frances Trollope, a ...
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