Word: trollopean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each man I could assert whether he would have said these or the other words; of every woman, whether she would then have smiled or so have frowned." Earth Under Glass. Bar Chester Towers shows this gallery packed to the eaves with typically Trollopean peers, squires, High and Low Church clergymen, farmers, shopkeepers, each with his wife and family, all passionately involved in the everyday affairs and intrigues of an English cathedral town. It is, said Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a great admirer of Trollope, "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump...