biography
pronunciation:
[troluhp]
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| lived:
| (1815–82)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in London, UK. He joined the Post Office in 1834, working as a clerk, and introduced the pillar-box for posting letters before his retirement in 1867. In 1841 he became postal surveyor in Ireland, where he began to write. His first novel in the ‘Barsetshire’ series, The Warden, appeared in 1855, and was followed by such successful books as Barchester Towers (1857), Framley Parsonage (1861), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867). A political series followed, known as the ‘Palliser’ novels (after the central character), including Phineas Finn (1869) and The Eustace Diamonds (1873). Among his later novels were The Way We Live Now (1875) and Mr Scarborough's Family (1883). His revealing autobiography, written in 1875–6, was published in 1883. |
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