A women of some importance

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From: The Spectator
Date: 19980117
Author:Carr, Raymond

A woman of some importance Raymond Carr FANNY TROLLOPE

by Pamela Neville-Sington Viking, 20, pp. 432

From prime ministers down, we are all Trollopians now. This is a modern fashion. A Trollope addict in the Oxford of the late Thirties, I felt a provincial outcast among cosmopolitan aesthetes who read Alain Fournier, Malraux, Gide and Thomas Mann. With the Trollope boom we have collapsed into a comfortable provincialism, adding him to the nationalist pantheon of Dickens, Jane Austen and George Eliot, whose works are the standby for producers of TV costume dramas. Within a decade we have been ...

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