List of Works

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Single novels


The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847)
The Kellys and the O'Kellys (1848)
La Vendée: An Historical Romance (1850)
The Three Clerks (1858)
The Bertrams (1859)
Castle Richmond (1860)
Orley Farm (1862)
The Struggles of Brown, Jones & Robinson (1862)
Rachel Ray (1863)
Miss Mackenzie (1865)
The Belton Estate (1866)
The Claverings (1867)
Nina Balatka (1867)
Linda Tressel (1868)
He Knew He Was Right (1869)
The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870)
Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite (1871)
Ralph the Heir (1871)
The Golden Lion of Granpère (1872)
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil (1874)
Lady Anna (1874)
The Way We Live Now (1875)
The American Senator (1877)
Is He Popenjoy? (1878)
John Caldigate (1879)
An Eye for an Eye (1879)
Cousin Henry (1879)
Ayala's Angel (1881)
Doctor Wortle's School (1881)
The Fixed Period (1882)
Kept in the Dark (1882)
Marion Fay (1882)
Mr. Scarborough's Family (1883)
The Landleaguers (1883)
An Old Man's Love (1884)

Novel Series

Chronicles of Barsetshire
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Framley Parsonage (1861)
The Small House at Allington (1864)
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

Palliser novels
Can You Forgive Her? (1865)
Phineas Finn (1869)
The Eustace Diamonds (1873)
Phineas Redux (1874)
The Prime Minister (1876)
The Duke's Children (1880)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Short fiction

Tales of All Countries, 1st Series (1861)
"La Mère Bauche"
"The O'Conors of Castle Conor"
"John Bull on the Guadalquivir"
"Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica"
"The Courtship of Susan Bell"
"Relics of General Chassé"
"An Unprotected Female At the Pyramids"
"The Château of Prince Polignac"

Tales of All Countries 2nd Series (1863)
"Aaron Trow"
"Mrs. General Talboys"
"The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne"
"George Walker At Suez"
"The Mistletoe Bough"
"Returning Home"
"A Ride Across Palestine"
"The House of Heine Brothers in Munich"
"The Man Who Kept His Money In a Box"
"Gentle Euphemia" (1866)
"Katchen's Caprices" (1866)

Lotta Schmidt & Other Stories (1867)
"Lotta Schmidt"
"The Adventures of Fred Pickering"
"The Two Generals"
"Father Giles of Ballymoy"
"Malachi's Cove"
"The Widow's Mite"
"The Last Austrian Who Left Venice"
"Miss Ophelia Gledd"
"The Journey to Panama"

An Editor's Tales (1870)
"The Turkish Bath"
"Mary Gresley"
"Josephine De Montmorenci"
"The Panjandrum"
"The Spotted Dog"
"Mrs. Brumby"
"Christmas at Kirkby Cottage" (1870)
"Never, Never -- Never, Never" (1875)
"Catherine Carmichael" (1878)

Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and other Stories (1882)
"Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices"
"The Lady of Launay"
"Christmas At Thompson Hall"
"The Telegraph Girl"
"Alice Dugdale"

Uncollected Stories
"The Two Heroines of Plumplington" (1882)
"Not If I Know It" (1882)
"Christmas at Kirkby Cottage" (1870)
"Never, Never -- Never, Never" (1875)
"Catherine Carmichael" (1878)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Non-fiction

The West Indies and the Spanish Main (1859)
North America (1862)
Hunting Sketches (1865)
Travelling Sketches (1866)
Clergymen of the Church of England (1866)
British Sports and Pastimes 1868 (1868)
On English Prose Fiction as a Rational Amusement (1869)
The Commentaries of Caesar (1870)
Australia and New Zealand (1873)
New South Wales & Queensland (1874)
South Africa (1878)
How the 'Mastiffs' Went to Iceland (1878)
Iceland (1878)
Thackeray (1879)
Life of Cicero (1880)
Lord Palmerston (1882)
An Autobiography (1883)
London Tradesmen (1927)
The New Zealander (1972)

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Plays

Did He Steal It? (1869)
The Noble Jilt (1923)

[David]

Like all Victorian authors, most of Trollope's fiction from Framley Parsonage onwards first saw light of day in the form of periodicals before being printed in book form. Reading the periodical version is a quite interesting project in itself as these are often quite different from the final book form.
I find www.victorianresearch.org a good resource for tracking down the periodicals that the books originally appeared in. Most of these periodicals are readily available for www.archive.org or project gutenberg and form interesting reading, so you may want to check these out.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Here is the list of Trollope's works and their links available at Project Gutenberg.

[Denise]

I had no idea he wrote so much!

[David]

Just in case you're interested in the family relationships.

Frances Milton Trollope was his mother
Thomas Adolphus Trollope was his brother
Frances Eleanor Trollope eas his sister-in-law and sister to the actress Ellen Ternan, who, of course was Dickens' flame in later life, so as you can imagine there was a lot of conflict between Dickens and the Trollope family, over this relationship.

[Cynthia]

And then there's Joanna Trollope!

[David]

I believe there is some relationship, but I'm not exactly sure how they are related, but she is not a direct descendant.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

According to her wiki biography, "she is a fifth-generation niece of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope."

[Denise]

I'd wondered about Joanna Trollope. Very interesting all of that. I just bought Anthony Trollope's autobiography for my Kindle. Now to make time to read it.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I also read Balzac and Zola. Balzac came first and chose to write by exploring various aspects of French society. Zola emulated him, but chose to use a single family for his exploration.

It seems to me Trollope is doing very much the same about English society, and to a lesser extent Irish society, though I haven't seen it said that was his intent. Other than the favorite The Way We Live Now, I have kept to his two series.

[David]

Funny that, I have read some of Balzac's works,
but my intention is to make Balzac my next major project after finishing Trollope.
I am reading Zola as well, but not as a major project,
just in between. So far, I have only read his first novel Claude's confessions and I can't say that it did much for me. I am looking forward to getting up to the Rougon-Macquart series, but have a lot more reading to do, before I am ready to seriously tackle Zola.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

David wrote: "I can't find either of those two stories in an Editor's Tales and I don't see how that's possible
as An Editor's Tale appeared in 1870.
Christmas Day at Kirby Cottage first appeared in Routledge's ..."

I think I copied those from Wikipedia. In my "Complete Works" they are not listed under that title. I'll go back and review. I'm happy to make an entry for "Uncollected Stories" as you suggested, but didn't because it looked as if they were already there.

[David]

In Oxford Classics commemorative edition of Trollope's shorter fiction, they simply divided all his short stories into two volumes
Early Short Fiction
Later Short Fiction

So that's another altenative.
I have both these books at home and can post the contents tomorrow, if you like.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I'll take a look at what I have. I'd like to list them as published collections if possible. I can see some corrections already - Josephine De Montmorenci is not listed in Editor's Tales in the Complete Works.

Your earlier mention of archives.org will help immensely.

[David]

Okay, will leave it with you,
but if you run into any trouble trying to identify where they originally appeared, let me know and I'll see if I can find out. Those two Oxford Classics books I mentioned, contain the sources for all the stories in the notes.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

This will be an interesting project for me. The Josephine de Montmorenci is included in the edition on the internet. I'm sure corrections will not be immediate. ;-)

[David]

It could be a difference in editions.
It may have been included in the first edition but was left out in later editions.
Sometimes this happens.
I know, e.g. that the first edition of The MacDermots of Ballycloran contained three extra chapters,
that Trollope later removed in the second and all subsequent editions.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

I corrected the listings in Post #2 Short Stories.

I'm guessing that many of the stories have been published differently in various collections throughout the years.

It was interesting to do a little research on this. Several of the stories here are much longer than I call "short" and would probably be classified as novellas, approaching 80-100 pages.

[David]

I'm quite sure you are right.
When you say uncollected, that means uncollected in Trollope's lifetime. They have been collected in various editions since. I guess it would be more correct to say Short Fiction rather than short stories, although some of his shorter novels are little longer than the longest of these.

[David]

Well, I just finished Volume 1 of Orley Farm,
and as usual am thoroughly enjoying it.
It's by far the longest Trollope novel I have read to date, at some 800 pages length. According, to the introduction, it was Trollope's own favourite, but I don't know how much credit you can give that.
But can probably safely say, it was one of his favourites. I'll take a couple of days break now,
before tackling Volume 2.

So I'm making pretty good progress, having now read

The MacDermots of Ballycloran
The Kellys and the O'Kellys
La Vendee
The Warden
The New Zealander
Barchester Towers
The Three Clerks
The West Indies and the Spanish Main
Doctor Thorne
The Bertrams
Castle Richmond
Framley Parsonage
Orley Farm Volume 1

But still have a long way to go.

Next is another travel book, viz North America,
but before reading that, I think I'll read Fanny Trollope's "Domestic Manners of the Americans"
as I believe the work invites comparison with the earlier (and similar) work by his mother.

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

David wrote: "Well, I just finished Volume 1 of Orley Farm,
and as usual am thoroughly enjoying it.
It's by far the longest Trollope novel I have read to date, at some 800 pages length. According, to the introd..."

Although my approach is not the same as yours, I really like that there is at least one other working to reading all of Trollope.

[Cynthia]

I just finished my first Trollope, The Warden, and am now a true fan. Up to the attic today to find Barchester Towers. I wasn't sure if I wanted to read them one after another but I tried reading an ARC I had last night and I thought "why am I wasting time on this when I have something really wonderful to read?"

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Cynthia wrote: "I just finished my first Trollope, The Warden, and am now a true fan."

You can't know how pleased I am to read this! For me, I don't tire of reading more of him. Quite the contrary, I think I appreciate him more as I go along.

[Captain Sir Roddy, R.N. (Ret.)]

Over the past couple of years I am finding that I am really beginning to develop a terrific long-term relationship with Trollope's novels. While I have about a dozen in hard-cover, I now have his entire oeuvre on my Kindle.

I have read the following--

Doctor Thorne
Orley Farm
The Small House at Allington
Can You Forgive Her?
The Eustace Diamonds
The Way We Live Now
An Eye for an Eye

So, my question to all of you 'Trollopians' is this--What other novels by Trollope should consider as 'must-reads'?

Thanks for your help and suggestions, ever so much appreciated!

[Elizabeth (Alaska)]

Christopher, I think you should continue to read the Palliser series. You've made the start with Can You Forgive Her? and The Eustace Diamonds. It doesn't hurt at all that you skipped Phineas Finn, but don't read any more without having read that one.

His Chronicles of Barchester is also good, of course, and many prefer it over Palliser.

You have already chosen some of the best I've read, though I'm sure there are nuggets still left to me.

[Pperkins]

I recommend Lady Anna, a Trollope novel that's not in a series. It's an interesting story about changing social attitudes, titled and working classes, forced marriages and... spoiler alert!... mothers gone mad!