Trollope's One-Volume Novels ("novels which finish within 300 pages")

In General

• apRoberts, Ruth. The Moral Trollope. Athen, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1971.
• Brooks, Peter. 'The Melodrama of Consciousness', Henry James: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Ruth Bernard Yeazell. New Jersey, 1994, pp. 15-38.
• ------------. The Melodramatic ImaginationNina Balatka, Linda Tressel, Harry Hotspur, The Golden Lion, Cousin Henry, Kept in the Dark.
• Cockshut, A. O. J. Anthony Trollope: A Critical Study. London: Collins, 1968. This contains some of valuable pages on the short novels.
• Cowdery, Lauren T. The Nouvelle of Henry James in Theory and Practice. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1986, pp. 1-17.
• Harvey, Geoffrey. The Art of Anthony Trollope. New York: St Martin's Press, 1980.
• James, Henry. The Art of the Novel, introd. R. P. Blackmur New York, 1934, pp. 30-37, 267-87. On short fiction and the relation of romance to realism.
• Knelman, Judith. 'Trollope's Experiments with Anonymity', Victorian Periodicals Review, 14 (1981), pp. 21-24.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999. Chapter Four: 'Trollope's Thirteen "Novels in One Volume", pp. 81-98.
• Polhemus, Robert M. The Changing World of Anthony Trollope. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.
• Smalley, Donald, ed. Trollope: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969. This book contains unsigned contemporary reviews of all the novellas, some of these the best that have ever been said about them. Those writing at the time were better able to see that Trollope is superb in a small space too, and writing quite differently in such books.
• Stone, Donald D. 'James, Trollope and "the Vulgar Materials of Tragedy", The Henry James Review, 10 (1989), pp. 100-3.
• Swingle, L. J. Romanticism and Anthony Trollope: A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990.
• Tracy, Robert. Trollope's Later Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
• Trollope, Anthony. 'A Review of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, ed. Sculley Bradley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long. New York: Scribner, 1961, pp. 236-45. This review further explicates the perspective and art of Trollope's novellas as outlined more sketchily in his An Autobiography.
• -----------------. An Autobiography ed. Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page, introduction and notes by P. D. Edwards (1950; reprint Oxford, 1980), pp.
• Vann, J. Don. Victorian Novels in Serial. New York: The 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 in their original instalment and volumed publications. For Trollope the reader will find the instalment and earliest volumed publication of 34 of his novels from Framley Parsonage through to The Landleaguers. For the novellas, he includes: The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, Nina Balatka, Linda Tressel, Sir Harry Hotspur, The Golden Lion, Harry Heathcote, An Eye for an Eye, Cousin Henry, Dr Wortle's School, The Fixed Period, and Kept in the Dark.
• West, William A. 'The Anonymous Trollope', Ariel, 5 (1974), pp. 46-65.
• Wharton, Edith. The Writing of Fiction New York, 1997, pp. 36-38. On short fiction or novellas.

The above general studies are selected out from the general bibliography because of the unusual amount of attention, respect, and real sensitivity with which the authors or the editor's included essays approach Trollope's short novels.

The Warden

• Bloom, Harold, ed. Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers and The Warden: Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Chelsea, 1988.
• Chadwick, Owen. 'Introduction' to The Warden, ed. Owen Chadwick. London: The Trollope Society, 1995.
• Gilead, Sarah. 'Trollope's Orphans: The Power of Adequate Performance', Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 27 (1985), pp. 86-105. Includes important analysis of Mr Harding and Lily Dale, and Lady Mason (from Orley Farm) as tragic patterns of figures whose withdrawal critiques 19th century society.
• Hawkins, Sherman. 'Mr Harding's Church Music', English Literary History, 29 (1962), pp. 202-23.
• Harvey, Geoffrey. 'Introduction' to Anthony Trollope, The Warden, ed. Geoffrey Harvey. Toronto, Canada: Broadview Press, 1999.
• Langford, Thomas A. 'Trollope's Satire in The Warden, Studies in the Novel, 19 (1987), pp. 435-47.
• Lyons, Paul. 'The morality of irony and unreliable narrative in Trollope's The Warden and Barchester Towers', South Atlantic Review, 54 (1989), pp. 41-54.
• Meckier, Jerome. 'The cant of reform: Trollope rewrites Dickens in The Warden, Studies in the Novels, 1983(15), pp. 202-23.
• Murfin, Ross C. 'The gap in Trollope's fiction: The Warden as an example, Studies in the Novel , 1982 (14), pp. 17-30.
• Sadleir, Michael. Anthony Trollope: A Commentary. London: pp. 164-69.
• Saldivar, Ramón. 'Trollope's The Warden and the Fiction of Realism', Journal of Narrative Technique, 11 (1981), pp. 166-83
• Skilton, David. 'Introduction to The Warden, ed. David Skilton. 1952; reprinted Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980, pp. xi-xxii.
• John Sutherland, John, "Trollope, the Times, and The Warden," Victorian Journalism: Exotic and Domestic, edd. Barbara Garlick and Margaret Harris. The University of Queensland Press, 1998.

The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson: By One of the Firm

• Hall, N. John. 'Introduction', The Struggle of Brown, Jones and Robinson. New York: Arno Press, unpaginated.
• -------------. The Struggle of Brown, Jones and Robinson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. vii-xv. An abridged version of the above essay.

Nina Balatka, the Story of a Maiden of Prague

• Bury, Laurent, "Trollopian Gothic", Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens N°. 58, "Studies in Anthony Trollope", Octobre 2003.
• Dessner, Lawrence Jay. 'The Autobiographical Matrix of Trollope's The Bertrams', Nineteenth-Century Literature, 45 (1989), 25-38.
• Gindin, James. 'Introduction', Nina Balatka. 1867; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981, Vol I.
• James, Henry. 'Linda Tressel. By the author of Nina Balatka, the Story of a Maiden of Prague. Boston: Little & Gray, 1867. In Henry James: Essays on Literature: American Writers, English Writers. New York: The Library of America, 1984, pp. 1326-1330. First appeared in the Nation, 1868.
• Harvey, Geoffrey. The Art of Anthony Trollope. New York: St Martin's Press, 1981, pp. 74-85.
• Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: 'The Jewish Question' and English National Identity. Duke: Duke University Press, 1995, pp. 234-59.
• Rosenberg, Edgar. From Shylock to Svengali. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960, pp. 280-82.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999, pp. 92-95.
• Thirkell, Angela. 'Introduction', Nina Balatka. London: The Trollope Society, 1996, pp. x-xvi.
• Tracy, Robert. 'Introduction' to Nina Balatka/Linda Tressel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. vii-xxxv.

Linda Tressel

• Bury, Laurent, "Trollopian Gothic", Cahiers Victoriens et Édouardiens N°. 58, "Studies in Anthony Trollope", Octobre 2003.
• Gindin, James. 'Introduction' Linda Tressel. 1868; reprinted New York: Arno, 1981), Vol I, unpaginated.
• James, Henry. 'Linda Tressel. By the author of Nina Balatka, the Story of a Maiden of Prague. Boston: Little & Gray, 1867. In Henry James: Essays on Literature: American Writers, English Writers. New York: The Library of America, 1984, pp. 1326-1330. First appeared in the Nation, 1868.
• Stone, Donald D. 'James, Trollope and "the Vulgar Materials of Tragedy", The Henry James Review, 10 (1989), pp. 100-3.
• Tracy, Robert. 'Introduction' to Nina Balatka/Linda Tressel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. vii-xxxv.

The Golden Lion of Granpère

• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999, pp. 84-85, 88-89, 92, 94-96, 148-512. This includes a discussion and reprint of the original illustrations by Francis Arthur Fraser.
• Skilton, David. 'Introduction' to The Golden Lion of Granpère 1872; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981, Volume I, unpaginaged.
• Skilton, David. 'Introduction' to The Golden Lion of Granpère. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. vii-xxv.

Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite

• Bradbury, Susan. 'Introduction', Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. London: The Trollope Society, 1992.
• Halperin, John. 'Introduction', Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. 1872; reprinted New York: Arno, 1980, Volume I unpaginated.
• Pearson, David. '"The Letter Killeth": Epistolary Purposes and Techniques in Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 37 (1982), pp. 396-418.
• Hall, N. John. 'Introduction', Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. Oxford: Oxford University Press: 1991, p. vii-xvi. Southern Humanities Review, 19 (1985), pp. 301-8.

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. Los Angeles: University of California, 1978, pp. 129-38

Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. A Tale of Australian Bush Life

• Edward, P. J. 'Introduction' to Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. New York: Arno Press, 1980, unpaginated.
• -------------. 'Introduction' to Harry Heathcote of Gangoil. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, pp. vii-xxvi. An abridged version of the above essay.

Cousin Henry

• apRoberts, Ruth. 'Cousin Henry: Trollope's Note from Antiquity', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 24 (1969), pp. 93-98.
• Hillis Miller, J. 'Introduction', Cousin Henry. 1879: reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981, Volume I, unpaginated. This is a superb essay.
• Phelps, Gilbert. 'Introduction', Cousin Henry. London: The Trollope Society, 1993. Ditto.
• Polhemus, Robert N. 'Cousin Henry: Trollope Note from Underground', Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 20 (1965-66), pp. 385-89.

Dr Wortle's School

• Crawley, Ernest. The Mystic Rose: A Study of Primitive Marriage and of Primitive Thought in its Bearing on Marriage, revised by Theodore Besterman. New York, 1960, pp. 42-182
• Halperin, John. 'Introduction', Dr Wortle's School. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
• Polhemus, Robert M. The Changing World of Anthony Trollope. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968, pp. 236-40.

Kept in the Dark

• Freud, Sigmund. See his papers on degradation in erotic life and the taboo of virginity in Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, ed. Philip Rieff. New York, 1963.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999, pp. 89-90.
• Parker, Derek. 'Introduction', Kept in the Dark. London: The Trollope Society, 1997.
• Pigman, G. W., III. 'Introduction', Kept in the Dark. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992,, pp. vii-xix. It is unfortunate that the least expensive edition of this novel is prefaced by such an obtuse essay. Pigman has missed the whole point; however, he exemplifies the sort of attitude towards the breaking of sexual taboos described by Freud (see below).

The Fixed Period

• Massinger, Philip, Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, The Old Law, or A New Way to Please You. London, ca 1618.
• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999, pp. 88-90, 98-98.
• Skilton, David. 'The Fixed Period: Anthony Trollope's Novel of 1989', Studies in the Literary Imagination, 6 (1973), pp. 39-50.
• ---------------. 'Introduction', The Fixed Period. 1882; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981, Volume I, unpaginated.
• Skilton, David. 'Introduction', The Fixed Period. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. vii-xix.
• Super, R. H. 'Introduction', The Fixed Period Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. v-xv.
• Tracy, Robert. Trollope's Later Novels. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978, pp. 261-70, 285-94.

An Old Man's Love

• Moody, Ellen. Trollope on the Net. London: Hambledon Press and the Trollope Society, 1999, p. 97 and notes.
• Rowse, A. L. An Old Man's Love. 1884; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981, Volume I, unpaginated.
• Sutherland, John. 'Introduction', An Old Man's Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press, , pp. vii-xxii.
• Swingle, L. J. Romanticism and Anthony Trollope: A Study in the Continuities of Nineteenth-Century Thought. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990, pp. 154-59.

[I list the fictions in chronological order, cited with their number in Trollope's oeuvre and the year Trollope wrote them, followed in parenthesis by the year of publication as a book. I place 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.

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 Warden, ed., introd. Geoffrey Harvey, Geoffrey. Toronto, Canada: Broadview Press, 1999. With excellent appendices, critical material. For a description of a contemporary set of illustrations see http://www.JimandEllen.org/trollope/picture1.htm. Trollope's fourth, 1852 (1855).
• -----------------. The Warden, ed. D. Skilton Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 284 pages.
• -----------------. The Warden, ed., introd. Owen Chadwick. London: The Trollope Society, 1995.
• -----------------. The Struggles of Brown, Jones,and Robinson, ed. N. John Hall (Oxford, 1992), 183 pages. Trollope's seventh novel, 1857-61 (1862).
• -----------------. The Struggle of Brown, Jones and Robinson, introd. N. John Hall. New York: Arno Press, unpaginated. This edition includes the four original illustrations.
• -----------------. The Struggle of Brown, Jones and Robinson, introd. Juliet McMaster. London: The Trollope Society, 2000.
• -----------------. Nina Balatka and Linda Tressel, ed. Robert Tracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991,192 and 193 pages respectively. Trollope's nineteenth and twenty-second, 1865 (1867), 1867 (1868).
• -----------------. Nina Balatka, introd. Angela Thirlwell. London: The Trollope Society, 1996.
• -----------------. Nina Balatka, introd. James Gindin. 1867; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981.
• -----------------. Linda Tressel, introd. Joanna Trollope. London: The Trollope Society, 1999.
• -----------------. Linda Tressel, introd. James Gindin. 1868; reprinted New York: Arno, 1981.
• ----------------. The Golden Lion of Granpère, ed. David Skilton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 267 pages. Trollope's twenty-third, 1867 (1872).
• -----------------. The Golden Lion of Granpère. New York: Harper and Bros, 1872. This American edition includes the eight full-page, eight half-page and eight quarter-page illustrations by Fraser, each aligned or dropped into precisely the appropriate point in the text. The complete set of twenty-four illustrations were drawn for the serialisation in Good Words which ran from January through August 1872.
• -----------------. The Golden Lion of Granpère, introd. David Skilton. 1872; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981.
• ----------------. The Golden Lion of Granpère, introd. Anthony Juckes. London: The Trollope Society, 1998.
• -----------------. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, ed. N. John Hall (Oxford, 1991), 246 pages. His twenty-ninth, 1870 (1879).
• -----------------. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, introd. 1871; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981.
• -----------------. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite. New York: Dover, 1985. A republication of the edition published by Wiliams and Norgate Letd., London of the edition first published serially in Macmillan's Magazine, May-December 1870.
• -----------------. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite, introd. Sue Bradbury. London: The Trollope Society, 1992.
• -----------------. An Eye for an Eye, ed. John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 203 pages. Trollope's twenty-sixth, 1868 (1871).
• -----------------. An Eye for an Eye, introd. James Kincaid. 1879; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1980.
• -----------------. An Eye for An Eye, introd. Maeve Binchey. London: Trollope Society, 1993.
• -----------------. An Eye for An Eye, introd. Simon Raven. New York: Stein and Day, 1967.
• ------------------. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, A Tale of Australian Bushlife, ed. P. D. Edwards. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992, 122 pages. Trollope's thirty-third, 1873 (1874).
• ------------------. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, A Tale of Australian Bushlife, introd. P. D. Edwards. London: The Trollope Society, 1999.
• ------------------. Harry Heathcote of Gangoil, A Tale of Australian Bushlife. New York: Dover, 1987. A republication of the edition first published by Sampson and Lew in London, 1874.
• ------------------. Cousin Henry, ed. Julian Thompson. Oxford, 1987), 280 pages. Trollope's fortieth, 1878 (1879.
• ------------------. Cousin Henry, introd. J. Hillis Miller. 1879; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981.
• ------------------. Cousin Henry, introd. Gilbert Philips. London: The Trollope Society, 1993.
• ------------------. Dr Wortle's School, ed. John Halperin. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1984, 280 pages. Trollope's forty-second, 1879 (1881).
• ------------------. Dr Wortle's School, introd. Dr John Rea. London: The Trollope Society, 1989.
• ------------------. Kept in the Dark, introd. Derek Parker. London: The Trollope Society, 1997. This edition includes as a frontispiece John Everett's Millais's frontispiece for the first edition.
• ------------------. Kept in the Dark, ed. G. W. Pigman III. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 218 pages. Trollope's forty-third, 1880 (1882).
• ------------------. The Fixed Period, ed., introd. R. H. Super. The University of Michigan Press, 1990, 176 pages. Trollope's forty-fourth, 180 (1882).
• ------------------. The Fixed Period, ed., introd. David Skilton. Oxford: Oxford Univesity Press 1993.
• ------------------. The Fixed Period, introd. Graham Handley. London: The Trollope Society, 1998.
• ------------------. An Old Man's Love, ed. John Sutherland. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1991, 265 pages. Trollope's forty-sixth, 1882 (1884).
• ------------------. An Old Man's Love, introd. A. L. Rowse. 1884; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981.