Victoria glendinning anthony trollope biography

British biographer and novelist (born 1937)

Victoria GlendinningCBE FRSL (néeSeebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist.

She is an honorary vice-president of English PEN and vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for biography.

A warts-and-all account of the Victorian writer, Anthony Trollope, telling us all about his writing, his family, his work and his hobbies.

Anthony Trollope has come down to us as the most Victorian of Victorian novelists, who perfected a "bluff, roast-beef kind of Englishness" into high--and immensely popular--art.

Victoria Glendinning provides a woman's view of Anthony Trollope, placing emphasis on family, particularly on his relationship with his mother.

Glendinning, author of several biographies, presents a wonderful blend of Trollope's personal life and literary career within Victorian England's cultural and.

Anthony Trollope is today the best-loved and most widely read of the great Victorian novelists, and Victotria Glendinning's new biography represents the high.

Early life and education

She was born in Sheffield, England,^[1] to a Quaker family. Her father was the banker Frederic Seebohm (created a life peer as Baron Seebohm in April 1972), while her great-grandfather was the economic historian, also called Frederic Seebohm.

Her mother was clever, "but she never did anything with it, except wait for my father to come home", Glendinning said in a 1999 interview.^[2]

Her sister is Caroline Seebohm, an American biographer.

Glendinning grew up near York and, after being privately educated at Millfield School in Somerset, went up to Somervi