The Trollope Society
The Trollope Society exists, with a world-wide membership, to promote and publish the works of Anthony Trollope, to provide a forum for the exploration of all aspects of his life, and to encourage the reading and enjoyment of his fiction for future generations.
Join The Trollope Society
Annual membership of the Society is £26, or just £12 for people under 25 years old. Members receive regular mailings of the literary magazine Trollopiana; plus the right to order books from the Complete Edition, the right to attend the Annual Lecture (free), occasional events, and the Annual Dinner.
Click here to download our 2009 membership form (opens new browser window)
The Society's aims
Anthony Trollope wrote forty-seven novels - three times as many as Dickens - and many have long preferred Trollope for his subtle delineation of human character and middle class mores. Yet in as late as 1987, over 100 years after the author's death, no complete edition had been published, and Anthony Trollope had not even achieved the dignity of a memorial in Westminster Abbey. At that point, the writer Paul Johnson called attention to these extraordinary omissions, calling them 'absurd and humiliating' and adding 'we owe it to our national honour to put this right'.
'Putting them right' was clearly to be the first objective of The Trollope Society, which was founded in the same year. Twelve years on, a memorial to Anthony Trollope was unveiled in Poets' Corner by the Prime Minister; and all forty-seven volumes of the complete novels have now been published in the Complete Edition, as well as all five volumes of the short stories, and almost all of the non-fiction, including his travel books. The Complete Edition - comprising 60 volumes - is available exclusively to members of the Trollope Society.
The Society continues to promote worldwide awareness of the life and work of this enduringly popular author through the publication of its journal, Trollopiana. The Society brings together those who enjoy Trollope's works at a wide range of events, including the Annual Dinner, AGM Lecture, weekend excursions to places associated with Trollope. The Society also encourages local seminars groups, where members meet informally to discuss Trollope's works and, occasionally, recreate memorable scenes from some of his novels.
For more information visit The Trollope Society's website
