Trollope's Irish Novels, La Vendée and Ireland

In General

• Corbett, Mary Jean. Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870. Cambridge University Press, 2000. One chapter on Trollope's Irish novels.
• Cronin, John "Trollope and the Matter of Ireland," Anthony Trollope, ed. Tony Bareham. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1980, pp. 13-35.
• Donovan, Robert A. "Trollope's Prentice Work", Modern Philology, (1956), pp. 179-86.
• Dunleavy, Janet Egleson. 'Trollope and Ireland', Trollope: Centenary Essays, ed., introd. John Halperin. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982, pp. 53-69.
• Edwards, Owen Dudley. 'Trollope and the Reviewers: Three Notes', Notes and Queries, November 1968, pp. 418-20. Edwards argues that Trollope's revisions of his Irish novels and new approaches to each demonstrates he read the reviews carefully.
• --------------------. "Anthony Trollope, the Irish Writer," Nineteenth Century Fiction , 38 (1983), 1-42.
• Escott, T. H. S. Anthony Trollope: His Public Services, Private Friends, and Literary Originals . 1913; rpt. New York: Kennikat Press, p. 60-100, 311-2.
• Foster, Roy "Adopting Ireland," Trollopiana: The Journal of the Trollope Society 28 (1995),
• Foster, R. F. "Marginal Men and Micks on the Make: The Uses of Irish Exile, c. 1840-1922," in his Paddy & Mr Punch: Connections in Irish and English History London: Penguin, 1995, p. 281-305.
• Hynes, John, "Anthony Trollope's Creative 'Culture-Shock:' Banagher, 1841," Eire-Ireland, 21 (1986), 124-31.
• Hynes, John, "Anthony Trollope and the 'Irish Question,'" Études Irlandaises, 8 (1983), pp. 212-28.
• Johnston, Conor "Parsons, Priests, and Politics: Anthony Trollope's Irish Clergy," 25 (1990), Eire-Ireland, pp. 80-97.
• King, Helen Garlinghouse, "Trollope's [Six] Letters to the Examiner," ed. Helen Garlinghouse King Princeton University Library Chronicle, 26 (1965), pp. 76-8.
• Maxwell, Constantia, "Anthony Trollope and Ireland," Dublin Magazine, 30 (1955), 6-15.
• Mullen, Richard and James Munson. The Penguin Companion to Trollope. New York: Trollope Society, 1996. This book includes separate informative essays on Victorian Ireland, aspects of Irish life, and also readings of the Irish novels and short stories.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999. Chapter Two: 'Tales of Western Ireland', pp. 31-46.
• Sadleir, Michael, "The Healing Hand of Ireland" in Trollope: A Commentary. 1927: rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1961, pp. 135-47
• Smalley, Donald, ed. Anthony Trollope: The Critical Heritage (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1969), Reviews of all the Irish fiction and La Vendée.
• Terry, R. C. Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding. New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977, pp. 175-200.
• ------------. gen. Oxford Reader's Companion to Trollope. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. This book includes superb essays on the individual novels and entries on aspects of Irish life and politics in the 19th century.
• Tracey, Robert "'The Unnatural Ruins': Trollope and Nineteenth-Century Fiction," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 37 (1982), 358-82.
• Vann, J. Don. Victorian Novels in Serial. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1985. This book includes detailed explanatory analyses of the divisions of many of the best known novels of Trollope's era. For Trollope the reader will find the instalment and volumed publication of 34 of his novels in their instalment and earliest volumed forms from Framley Parsonage through to The Landleaguers, including all novellas that were serialised. For the Irish novels, beyond The Landleaguers, Vann includes only An Eye for An Eye because The Macdermots, The Kellys and O'Kellys, and Castle Richmond were not serialised.
• Victorian Literature and Culture, 32:1 (2004): Elizabeth Gilmartin, "The Anglo-Irish Dialect: Mediating Linguistic Conflict"; Sarah Jane Edge, "Photographic History and the Visual Appearance of an Irish Nationalist Discourse 1840-1870"; Kathleen Vejvoda, "Too Much Knowledge of the Other World": Women and Nineteenth-Century Irish Folktales"; Matthew Campbell, "Letting the Past Be Past: The English Poet and the Irish Poem"; Amy E. Martin, "Blood Transfusions: Constructions of Irish Racial Difference, the English Working Class, and Revolutionary Possibility in the Work of Carlyle and Engels"; Laura M. Berol, "The Anglo-Irish Threat in Thackeray's and Trollope's Writings of the 1840s;" Bridget Matthews-Kane, "Love's Labour's Lost: Romantic Allegory in Trollope's Castle Richmond"; Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "An Angel in the House: The Act of Union and Anthony Trollope's Irish Hero"; Patrick Lonergan, "The Representation of Phineas Finn: Anthony Trollope's Palliser Series and Victorian Ireland"; Teresa Breathnach, "For Health and Pleasure: The Turkish Bath in Victorian Ireland"; Jacqueline Clais-Girard, "The English Catholics and Irish Nationalism 1865-1890: A Tragedy in Five Acts"; Review Essays on Victorian Ireland: Patrick Brantlinger, " The Famine"; James H. Murphy, "The Literature and Culture of Nineteenth-Century Ireland"; Maria Carla Martino, "Woman as Writer/Writer as Woman: George Paston's A Writer of Books"; Review Essays: Norman Kelvin's "Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti: A Pairing of Identities"; Ruth A. Solie, "No 'Land without Music' After All"; Nina Auerbach, "Ghosts of Ghosts."
• Wittig, E. W. "Trollope's Irish Fiction," Eire-Ireland, 9 (1974), pp. 100-2.
• Walt, James "Trollope's Literary Beginnnings," Michigan Alumnus Quarterly, 62 (1965), pp. 208-10.

The Macdermots of Ballycloran

• Asmundsson, Doris, R. "Trollope's First Novel: A Re-examination," Eire-Ireland, 6 (1971), 83-91
• Edwards, Owen Dudley. "Introduction" to Macdermots of Ballycloran London: Trollope Society Edition, 1991.
• Gilead, Sarah "Trollope's Ground of Meaning: The Macdermots of Ballycloran," The Victorian Newsletter, 69 (1986), 23-6.
• Hall, N. John, "Introduction" Macdermots. New York: Arno Press, 1999.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999. Chapter One: 'The Macdermots of Ballycloran, pp. 1-30.
• Terry, R. C., "Three Lost Chapters of Trollope's First Novel," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 27 (1972), pp. 74-8.
• Tingay, Lance, "The Reception of Trollope's First Novel," Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 6 (1951)
• Tracey, Robert, "Introduction" to Macdermots of Ballycloran. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Wittig, E. W. "Significant revisions in Trollope's The Macdermots of Ballycloran," Notes and Queries 218 (1972), 90-1.

The Kellys and O'Kellys

• Trevor, William. "Introduction to The Kellys and the O'Kellys, ed. W. J. McCormack. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982, pp. vii-xiii.
• White, Terence de Vere, "Introduction" to The Kellys and O'Kellys. London: Trollope Society Edition, 1992.

La Vendée

• Balzac, Honoré. The Chouans, translated from the French and introduced by Marion Ayton Crawford. New York: Penguin,1972.
• Carlyle, Thomas. The French Revolution, ed. introd. K. J. Fielding and David Sorensen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Cobb, Richard. The People's Armies: The armée révolutionaries: instrument of the Terror in the departments April 1793 to Floréal Year II, translated from the French by Marianne Elliott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
• Fleishman, Avrom. The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1971.
• Horder, Mervyn, "Introduction" to La Vendée. London: Trollope Society, 1999.
• MacCormack, W. J., "Introduction to La Vendée. New York: Oxford Unversity Press, 1994.
• Scott, the Honorable Mrs Maxwell. The Life of Madame de La Rochejaquelein. London: Longmans and Green, 1911.
• Lukacs, Georg. The Historical Novel, translated from the German by Hannah and Stanley Mitchell. Prefaced by Irving Howe. Boston: Beacon Press, 1963.
• Tilley, Charles. The Vendée: A Sociological Analysis of the Counterrevolution of 1793. New York: Wiley, 1964.

Castle Richmond

• Hamer, Mary. "Introduction" to Castle Richmond. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• Hastings, Max, "Introduction" to Castle Richmond. London: Trollope Society Edition, 1994.
• Hennedy, Hugh L. "Love and Famine, Family and Country in Trollope's Castle Richmond," Eire-Ireland, (7), 1972, pp. 49-66.
• Kelleher, M. "Castle Richmond: Famine Narrative and Horrid Novel", Irish University Review, 25/2 (1995), pp. 242-262.
• Knelman, Judith, "Anthony Trollope: English journalist and novelist, writing about the famine in Ireland," Eire-Ireland, 23 (1988), pp. 57-67
• Matthews-Kane, Bridget, "Love's Labour's Lost: Romantic Allegory in Trollope's Castle Richmond, Victorian Literature and Culture, 32:1 (2004).
• Nardin, Jane, "Castle Richmond, the Famine, and the Critics," Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens, No 58, "Studies in Anthony Trollope," Octobre 2003.

An Eye for An Eye

• Binchy, Maeve. "Introduction" to An Eye for An Eye. London: Trollope Society Edition, 1993.
• Cockshut, A. O. J. "An Eye for An Eye," Anthony Trollope: A Critical Study. London: Collins, 1955, pp. 197-203.
• Harvey, Geoffrey, The Art of Anthony Trollope (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980), pp. 85-88.
• Kincaid, James, "Introduction to An Eye for An Eye. New York: Arno Press, 1981, no pagination.
• Hynes, John An Eye for An Eye: Anthony Trollope's Irish Masterpiece," Journal of Irish Literature, 16 (1987), pp 54-8.
• Raven, Simon, "Introduction" to An Eye for An Eye. London: Anthony Blood, 1966, pp. ix-xii.
• Sutherland, John, "Introduction to An Eye for An Eye, ed. John Sutherland (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), pp. vii-xxii.
• Tracy, Robert, "An Eye for An Eye" in Trollope's Later Novels, pp. 129-38

The Landleaguers

• Delaney, Frank, "Introduction" to Landleaguers. London: Trollope Society Edition, 1995.
• Hamer, Mary, "Introduction" to Landleaguers, ed. Mary Hamer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• Hynes, John, "A Note on Trollope's Landleaguers," Études Irlandaises, 11 (1986), pp. 65-70.
• Lund, Michael "Literary Pieces and Whole Audiences: Denis Duval, Edwin Drood, and The Landleaguers, 28 (1986), pp. 27-49.
• Tracy, Robert "Instant Replay: Trollope's The Landleaguers, 1883," Eire-Ireland 15 (1980), pp. 30-46

[Except for the Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, I list Trollope's Irish novels, short stories, and two Phineasbooks (also partly set in and about Ireland) in order of publication , and then places the best edition first. Criteria for 'best' include returning to the original text, a scholarly introduction and notes, indications of the novel's original divisions, and finally inclusion of original illustrations and matter relevant to contemporary issues in the form of appendices. I include La Vendee on this list as although it is a singleton, Trollope's only historical novel (and thus also listed under "Novels in General"), it is metaphorically about Ireland as the French counter-revolution was often used in Trollope's day as a way of talking about Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s. It was written between The Kellys and O'Kellys, and a projected travel book on Ireland, part of which Trollope completed and sent to a publisher, but which has never come to light.

There is still no complete scholarly edition of Trollope's novels. I list for the convenience of the reader those editions which are respectable or have some merit (based on a collation of good texts or a good text, having a solid scholarly-critical introduction and notes, containing a reprint of the original illustrations to the novel, having an introductory essay which is of interest for the critical commentary) known to me. I have included a description of the edition if the edition has something which makes it better than the the others on this list. If any reader who comes to this site knows of good editions not cited below, I would be very grateful for information on these, and after checking, would add the citation to the list below.]

• Trollope, Anthony. The Macdermots of Ballycloran, ed. introd. Owen Dudley Edwards. London: The Trollope Society, 1991. This reprints the 1847 text complete and unbowlderised. There is a Folio Society edition which uses a facsimile of the same text and includes modern illustrations.
• -----------------. The Macdermots of Ballycloran, introd. N. John Hall. New York: Arno Press, 1999. This is a facsimile reprint of the complete unbowdlerised 1847 text.
• -----------------. The Macdermots of Ballycloran, ed. Robert Tracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• -----------------. The Macdermots of Ballycloran. New York: Dover, 1988. Reprint of fifth (bowdlerised edition) of Chapman and Hall.
• -----------------. The Kellys and the O'Kellys, ed. W. J. McCormack. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
• -----------------. The Kellys and the O'Kellys, introd. Terence de Vere White. London: Trollope Society, 1992. There is a Folio Society edition which uses a facsimile of the same text and includes modern illustrations.
• -----------------. La Vendée, ed. W. J. CCormack. New York: Oxford Unversity Press, 1994.
• -----------------. La Vendée, introd. Mervyn Horder. London: Trollope Society, 1999. There is a Folio Society edition which uses a facsimile of the same text and includes modern illustrations.
• -----------------. La Vendée. London and New York: Ward and Lock, 1904.
• -----------------. The Irish Famine: Six Letters to the Examiner, 1849/1850, ed. Lance O. Tingay. London: Silverbridge Press, 1978.
• -----------------. Castle Richmond, ed. Mary Hamer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
• -----------------. Castle Richmond, introd. Max Hastings. London: Trollope Society, 1994. There is a Folio Society edition which uses a facsimile of the same text and includes modern illustrations.
• -----------------. Castle Richmond. New York: Dover, 1984. Reprint of 1890 edition of the novel published by Chapman and Hall.
• -----------------. 'The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo', Early Short Stories, ed. John Sutherland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• -----------------. 'The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo', Anthony Trollope: The Complete Shorter Fiction, ed., introd. Julian Thompson. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1992.
• -----------------. 'The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo', in Courtship and Marriage, Volume 4 of The Complete Short Stories of Anthony Trollope, introd. Betty Breyer. London: Trollope Society, n.d., a reprint of Texas Christian Press edition of 1983.
• -----------------. 'Father Giles of Ballymoy', Later Short Stories, ed. John Sutherland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• -----------------. 'Father Giles of Ballymoy', Anthony Trollope: The Complete Shorter Fiction, ed., introd. Julian Thompson. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1992.
• -----------------. 'Father Giles of Ballymoy', Malachi's Cove and Other Stories, ed., introd. Richard Mullen. Cornwall: Tabb House, 1985.
• -----------------. 'Father Giles of Ballymoy,' Various Stories, Volume 5 of The Complete Short Stories of Anthony Trollope, introd. Betty Breyer. London: Trollope Society, n.d., a reprint of Texas Christian Press edition of 1983.
• ------------------. Phineas Finn, The Irish Member, introd. Enoch Powell. London: Trollope Society, 1989. This includes the complete set of the original illustrations by J. E. Millais. There is a Folio Society edition which includes the same text but substitutes modern illustrations for those of Millais.
• ------------------. Phineas Finn, The Irish Member, ed. John Sutherland. London: Penguin, 1972. This edition includes indications of the original divisions between the instalments.
• ------------------. Phineas Finn, The Irish Member, ed. Jacques Berthoud. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
• -----------------. An Eye for An Eye, ed. John Sutherland New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
• -----------------. An Eye for An Eye, introd. James Kincaid. 1879; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1980.
• -----------------. An Eye for An Eye, introd. Simon Raven. New York: Stein and Day, 1967.
• -----------------. An Eye for An Eye, introd. Maeve Binchey. London: Trollope Society, 1993. There is a Folio Society edition which uses a facsimile of the same text and includes modern illustrations.
• ------------------. Phineas Redux, introd. Robin Gilmour. London: Trollope Society, 1990/. This includes the complete set of the original illustrations by Frances Montague Holl. There is a Folio Society edition which includes the same text but substitutes modern illustrations for those of Holl.
• ------------------. Phineas Redux, introd. F. S. L. Lyons, ed., John C. Whale. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
• -----------------. The Landleaguers, ed. R. H. Super. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
• -----------------. The Landleaguers, ed. Mary Hamer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
• -----------------. The Landleaguers, ed. Frank Delany. London: Trollope Society, 1995. There is a Folio Society edition which uses a facsimile of the same text and includes modern illustrations.
• -----------------. Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, ed. Michael Mason. New York: Arno Press, 1981. This includes "The Irish Church".

General, Victorian Ireland and Anglo-Irish Novel

• Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1972.
• Cronin, John, The Anglo-Irish Novel: Volume One, The Nineteenth Century. New Jersey: Barnes and Noble, 1980.
• Deane, Seamus, A Short History of Irish Literature. London: Hutchinson, 1986.
• Donnelly, James. The Great Irish Potato Famine. London: Sutton Publishing, 2001.
• Donnelly, J. S. "The Whiteboy Movement," Irish Historical Studies, 21 (1978), 20-54.
• Edwards, Owen Dudley, ed. Conor Cruise O'Brien Introduces Ireland, ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969.
• ------------------- and Williams, T. Desmond. The Great Famine: Studies in Irish History. New York: Russell and Russell, 1956.
• Flanagan, Thomas The Irish Novelists: 1800-1850. 1958; rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1976.
• Foster, R. F. Modern Ireland: 1600-1972. New York: Penguin, 1988.
• ------------. 'Hillside Men', London Review of Books, 20, No. 14 (16 July 1998), pp. 12-14.
• Glendinning, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen. New York: Avon, 1979.
• Gray, Peter and Sarah Burns, edd. The Irish Famine. New York: Dimensions (Abrams Discoveries), 1995.
• Hurst, Michael. Maria Edgeworth and the Public Scene. Florida: University of Miami Press, 1969.
• Lyons, F. S. L., Ireland Since the Famine. London: Collins Harper, 1963.
• McCormack, M. J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland . Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. Important and good book.
• Mokyr, Joel, "Irish History with the Potato," Irish Econimic and Social History, (1981), 8-28.
• O'Faolain, Sean. King of the Beggars: A Life of Daniel O'Connell
• Póirtéir, Cathal, ed. The Great Irish Famine. Dublin: Mercier Press, 1995.
• Sutherland, John, The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Tóibín, Colm. 'Erasures: The Great Irish Famine', London Review of Books 20, No. 15 (20 July 1998), pp. 17-22
• Welch, Robert, ed. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
• Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-49. 1962; reprinted New York: Penguin, 1995.

On Anglo-Irish and Irish Novelists

• Bareham, Tony, ed. Charles Lever: New Evaluations. Maryland: Barnes and Noble, 1991.
• Kiely, Benedict. Poor Scholar: A Study of William Carleton. Dublin: The Talbot Press, 1942.
• Lee, Hermione Lee, Elizabeth Bown: An Estimation. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1981.
• McCormack, M. J. Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 198. Important and good book.
• Newcomer, James. Lady Morgan, the Novelist. Lewisburg: Bucknell, 1990.

By Anglo-Irish and Irish Novelists

• Bowen, Elizabeth. The Last September. 1929; reprinted New York: Avon, 1952.
• ----------------. Collected Impressions. New York: Knopf, 1950. Includes an important essay on Anthony Trollope and Dr Thorne, Sheridan Le Fanu and Uncle Silas, and Anglo-Irish literature.
• ----------------. A Time in Rome. London: Longmans, 1960.
• ----------------. Pictures and Conversations. New York: Knopf, 1975. Includes essay on her origins, on places and on the art of the novel from her perspective.
• ----------------. Bowen's Court. New York: Eco Press, 1979.
• Carleton, William The Black Prophet: A Tale of Irish Famine. New York: Routledge Standard Library, 1907.
• -----------------. Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry (ditto)last includes "Wildgoose Lodge" & "The Hedge School."
• ------------------. Fardorougha the Miser.
• ------------------. Autobiography, preface by Patrick Kavanagh. London: Macgibbon and Lee, 1968.
• Edgeworth, Maria, The Absentee, ed. W. J. McCormack and Kim Walker. Oxford University Press, 1988, pp. xv-xli
• ----------------. Castle Rackrent and Ennui, ed. Marilyn Butler. New York, Penguin, 1992.
• ----------------. Ormond . Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
• Flanagan, Thomas. The Year of the French. One of a a trilogy of historical fictions.
• Griffin, Gerald, The Collegian, or The Colleen Bawn: A Tale of Garryowen. London: Frederick Warne, pp. 202-9, 238-46.
• Le Fanu, Sheridan. Uncle Silas, introd. Frederick Shoyer. New York: Dover, 1966. Reprint of 1899 edition.
• -----------------. Best Ghost Stories, ed., introd. E.F. Bleiler. New York: Dover, 1964.
• Lever, Charles. Harry Lorrequer. New York: 1903.
• --------------. Luttrell of Arran. London: Chapman and Hall, 1903.
• O'Flaherty, Liam. Famine. New York: Literary Guild, 1957.
• Owenson, Sydney, Lady Morgan The Wild Irish Girl, introd. Bridget Brophy (New York: Pandora, 1986)
• Thackeray, Wm. The Irish Sketchbook. 1842; reprinted Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1990.
• -------------. The Paris Sketch book, The Irish Sketchbook, and Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Gran Cairo, with illustrations. London: Smith and Elder, 1878.

Poetry:

• Allingham, William. Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland
• Bell, Louis, ed. Popular Irish Poetry. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1995.
• Crotty, Patrick, ed. Modern Irish Poetry: An Anthology. Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 1995.