Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was one of the most successful, prolific, and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Alongside his writing career, Trollope spent over thirty years as a senior official in the General Post Office, where he famously introduced the red pillar post box to Great Britain and Ireland.

Writing every morning before breakfast with relentless clockwork discipline (250 words every fifteen minutes), Trollope produced forty-seven novels. His masterpieces include the six-novel Chronicles of Barsetshire (including The Warden and Barchester Towers), portraying clerical and county life, the six Palliser political novels, and his devastating satirical portrait of financial corruption and greed, The Way We Live Now (1875).