Trollope's Short Stories and Plays

Twentieth Century Attempts at Nearly Complete Editions

• Trollope, Anthony. Anthony Trollope: Early Short Stories, ed., introd., annotations by John Sutherland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. Contains:

  'Relics of General Chassé',
  'The Courtship of Susan Bell',
  'The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo',
  'La Mère Bauche',
  'An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids',
  'The Château of Prince Polignac',
  'Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica',
  'John Bull on the Gadalquivir',
  'A Ride Across Palestine' (alternatively titled: 'The Banks of the Jordan',
  'Mrs General Talboys',
  The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne',
  'Returning Home',
  'The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box',
  'Aaron Trowe',
  'The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich',
  'George Walker at Suez',
  'The Mistletoe Bough',
  The Journey to Panama',
  'The Widow's Mite',
  'The Two Generals',
  'Miss Ophelia Gledd',
  'Malachi's Cove'.
  

• ------------------. Anthony Trollope: Later Short Stories, ed., introd., annotations by John Sutherland. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. Contains:

  'Father Giles of Ballymoy',
  'Lotta Schmidt',
  'The Adventures of Fred Pickering',
  'The Last Austrian Who Left Venice',
  'The Turkish Bath',
  'Mary Gresley',
  'Josephine de Montmorenci',
  'The Panjandrum',
  'The Spotted Dog',
  'Mrs Brumby',
  'Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage',
  'Christmas at Thompson Hall',
  'Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices',
  'The Telegraph Girl',
  'The Lady of Launay',
  'Alice Dugdale',
  'Catherine Carmichael',
  'The Two Heroines of Plumplington',
  'Not If I Know It'.
  

  The above first volume and this second one contain all but two of Trollope's short stories ('The Gentle Euphemia', and 'Never, never, -- Never, never': A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte'). I cannot speak too highly of the excellence of the introductory essay and the detailed annotated notes at the back of each volume. These two books are indispensable tools for study of the short stories today.

• ------------------. Anthony Trollope: The Complete Shorter Fiction, ed. introd. Julian Thompson. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1992. Thompson's edition contains and puts all of the above stories in strict chronological order, provides brief bibliographical information, and adds to Sutherland's collection,

  'The Gentle Euphemia'.
  

  He does not reprint 'Never, never, -- Never, never'.

• ------------------. The Complete Short Stories in Five Volumes, ed., introd. Betty Jane Slemp Breyer. Fort Worth, Texas: Texas Christian University Press, 1981; reprinted London: The Trollope Society, n.d. Breyer also does not include 'Never, never, -- Never, never'.

  Volume I: The Christmas Stories. Contains in the following order:

  'The Mistletoe Bough',
  'Christmas at Thompson Hall',
  'Christmas Day at Kirby Cottage',
  'The Two Heroines of Plumplington',
  'The Widow's Mite',
  'The Two Generals',
  'Catherine Carmichael; or, Three Years Running',
  'Not If I Know It'.
  

  Volume II: Editors and Writers. Contains in the following order:

  'The Turkish Bath',
  'Mary Gresley',
  'The Panjandrum',
  'Mrs General Talboys',
  'The Spotted Dog',
  'Mrs Brumby',
  'The Misfortunes of Frederic Pickering',
  'Josephine de Montmorenci'.
  

  Volume III: Tourist and Colonials. Contains in the following order:

  'Miss Sarah Jack, of Spanish Town, Jamaica',
  'The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box',
  'Relics of General Chassé: A Tale of Antwerp',
  'The Banks of the Jordan' (alternatively titled: 'A Ride Across Palestine',
  'John Bull on the Guadalquivir',
  'The Château of Prince Polignac',
  'George Walker of Suez',
  'Aaron Trow',
  'Returning Home'.
  

  Volume IV: Courtship and Marriage. Contains in the following order:

  'The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo',
  'The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne',
  'Malachi's Cove',
  'The Telegraph Girl',
  'Alice Dugdale',
  'The Courtship of Susan Bell',
  'Miss Ophelia Gledd',
  'The Lady of Launay'.
  

  Volume V: Various Stories. Contains in the following order:

  'Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices',
  'Lotta Schmidt',
  'Father Giles of Ballymoy',
  'The Last Austrian Who Left Venice',
  'The House of Heine Brothers in Munich',
  'La Mère Bauche',
  'The Gentle Euphemia; or, 'Love Shall Still Be Lord of All',
  'The Journey to Panama'.
  

The above listing places the best edition first.

Facsimile Editions of Nearly Complete Sets

• ------------------. Tales of All Countries: First Series, introd. Donald Stone. 1861; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981. Contains in the following order:

  'La Mère Bauche',
  'The O'Conors of Castle Conor, County Mayo',
  'John Bull on the Gadalquivir',
  '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: Second Series, introd. Donald Stone. 1863; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981. Contains in the following order:

  'Aaron Trowe',
  'Mrs General Talboys',
  'The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne',
  'George Walker at Suez',
  'Mistletoe Bough',
  'Returning Home',
  'A Ride Across Palestine' (alternatively titled: 'The Banks of the Jordan',
  'The House of Heine Brothers, in Munich',
  'The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box'.
  

• ------------------. Lotta Schmidt and Other Stories, introd. Reginald Terry. 1867; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981. Contains:

  'Lotta Schmidt',
  'The Journey to Panama',
  'The Widow's Mite',
  'Malachi's Cove',
  'The Adventures of Fred Pickering',
  'The Last Austrian Who Left Venice',
  'The Two Generals',
  'Father Giles of Ballymoy',
  'Miss Ophelia Gledd'.
  

• -------------------. An Editor's Tales, introd. Donald Stone. 1870; reprinted New York: Arno Press, 1981. Contains:

  'The Turkish Bath',
  'Mary Gresley',
  'Josephine de Montmorenci',
  'The Panjandrum',
  'The Spotted Dog',
  'Mrs Brumby'.
  

• ------------------. Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices and Other Stories, introd. Reginald Terry. reprinted: New York: Arno Press, 1980. Contains:

  'Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices',
  'Christmas at Thompson Hall',
  'The Telegraph Girl',
  'The Lady of Launay',
  'Alice Dugdale',
  'Catharine Carmichael; or Three Years Running'.
  

  The introductory critical essays on the stories in the above four and this volume are excellent. There are also bibliographical notes in each.

I have not included the inexpensive Penguin facsimile reprints of the same original compilations by Trollope because they are so poor. I have not been able to see the 1980 Arno Press volume entitled Collected Stories and introduced by Susan L. Humphreys.

Facsimile Edition of the Two Plays

• ------------------. Did He Steal It?, introd. Robert H. Taylor, together with The Noble Jilt, preface by Michael Sadleir. Foreword by Robert H. Taylor. New York: Arno Press, 1981. Originally published London: Constable, 1923; Princeton: Princeton University Library, 1952. This is an important volume for the first rendition of the story of Can You Forgive Her?, and the story of Trollope's misadventure trying to put a play on the stage; and for his later attempt to put the material of The Last Chronicle of Barsetshire into a play.

Publications of Individual and Selections of Short Stories

• Trollope, Anthony. Malachi's Cove and Other Stories and Essays, ed. introd. Richard Mullen. Padstow, Cornwall: Tabb House, 1985. Contains in the following order:

  Short Stories:
  'Malachi's Cove',
  'Father Giles of Ballymoy,
  'La Mère Bauche',
  'The Journey to Panama',
  'Miss Ophelia Gledd';
  

  Essays:
  'Charles Dickens',
  'A Walk in a Wood'.
  

  The book has a good introductory appreciative essay and bibliographical notes.

• ------------------. 'Never, never, -- Never, never: A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte'. Privately printed by Lance O. Tingay, 1971, with an introduction. It is also available in the Trollope-l archives at http://www.egroups.com, for 11 March 2000. This 1875 broad parody of Bret Harte's mindset by Trollope in response to a bet by Harte, mocking Trollope's conception of Lily Dale and Johnny Eames in The Small House of Allington appeared but once in Trollope's lifetime: 6, 8, and 10 December 1875 in a publication called Sheets for the Cradle. The parody is little known, and Tingay's appears to be the only printed edition in book form in the twentieth-century.
• ------------------. 'The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne', Victorian Short Stories 2: The Trials of Love, ed. Harold Orel. London: Everyman, 1990. Contains:

  'Stories of Courtship': William Schwenck Gilbert 'Angela' (1890); Anthony Trollope,'The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne' (1861); Hubert Crackanthorpe, 'Anthony Garstin's Courtshiop' (1896), Mary Chavelita [Dunne] Bright [Pseudonym Geroge Egerton), 'A Little Grey Glove' (1893); Israel Zangwill, 'The Woman Beater' (1983);

  'Stories of Troubled Marriages': Rudyard Kipling, 'The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case' (1884); Ella D'Arcy, 'Irremediable' (1893); Arthur Morrison, 'A Poor Stick' (1894); Arthur Conan Doyle, 'The Adventure of Abbey Grange' (1897); George Gissing, 'The Prize Lodger' (1898);

  'Stories of Successful Marriages': Elizabeth Gaskell, 'The Manchester Marriage' (1858); Thomas Hardy, 'A Mere Interlude' (1885); George Moore, 'A Faithful Heart' (1892); Walter Besant, 'The Solid Gold Reef Company, Limited' (1895); Henry James, 'The Tree of Knowledge' (1923).

  As well as these extraordinary stories, the volume contains a good introduction and full bibliography of books on women's issues in the 19th century (education, custom, law, marriage, work, typical books etcetera).

• Selected Works of Anthony Trollope: "Collected Short Stories", ed. Susan L. Humphreys. New York: Arno Press, 1987. This volume has "Never, Never ...Never, Never", "The Gentle Euphemia", "Christmas Day at Kirkby Cottage", "Catherine Carmichael", "The Two Heroines of Plumplington", "Not if I Know it" and the spurious "Katchen's Caprices".

In General

• Eastwood, David R. 'Romantic Elements and Aesthetic Distance in Trollope's Fiction', Studies in Short Fiction, 18 (1981), pp. 395-405.
• Navakas, Francine. 'The Case for Trollope's Short Stories', Modern Philology, 83 (November 1985), pp. 172-78.
• Rogers, Henry N. III. ''Trollope and James: The "Germ" Within', Nineteenth-Century Literature, 27 (1987), pp. 647-62.
• Shifrin, Malcolm. 'Two Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street', Notes and Queries, New Series, 24 (December 1996), p. 430. Shifrim corrects a mistake by Sutherland in his edition of the short stories about the location of the Turkish Bath in Jermyn Street which Trollope meant.
• Stone, Donald. 'Trollope as a Short Story Writer', Nineteenth Century Fiction, 31 (1976), pp. 26-47. Henry N. Rogers III.

Specific Stories

See also Trollope himself in his An Autobiography, Mullen's essays in his Penguin Companion and the essays on the short stories in R. C. Terry's The Oxford Companion to Trollope as well as all the introductory material in the above collections and selections of the short stories.

For a group of essays I wrote on each of the short stories in the context of a group read with other members' essays, redactions, threads by all, and postings of all sorts while we read the short stories on Trollope-l between December 1997 and May 1998,click here; for all the group conversations and essays on the novels, click here.

A Note to the Reader