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Father in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is one of the U.S. cities which has reported no interest in Trollope-perhaps because Trollope's parents are part & parcel of Cincinnati history. To the young Midwest metropolis, in 1828, went eccentric Frances Trollope who was later followed by her equally eccentric lawyer husband...
Within three years, the Trollopes were back in England, so destitute that they could hardly buy shoes for their five children; "Trollope's Folly" remained standing until 1881, becoming successively the home of the Ohio Mechanics Society and a popular bawdyhouse. No whit discouraged, Thomas Trollope set to work...
For years, Frances Trollope spent her life ministering to dying members of her family with one hand, while supporting the survivors with the other. When her son, Henry, caught tuberculosis, she moved her desk into his room, wrote desperately all through his dying hours. Before Henry died, he passed on...
For Anthony, "a hobbledehoy of 19, without any idea of a career," Frances obtained a clerkship in the London Post Office. Tom, her other son, joined his mother in writing money-making fiction.
(Between them, Frances, Thomas Jr. and Anthony wrote more books than any family in history.) When she died, in Florence, aged 83, indomitable Frances Trollope had written 114 volumes in 33 years.