Sir Alec Guinness wrote in The Daily Telegraph Magazine:
"A wise man told me I would learn more about life from a great novelist
than from any other source.
I did not believe him. Now I wouldn't dream of going on holiday without a Trollope.
He has enlarged my world."
The American Trollope Society based in New York and the British Society based in London
were preceded by the Trollope Society of Philadelphia, which the noted bibliophile
A. Edward Newton founded in 1929.
The Trollope Society based in London, which
was founded in 1987 by John Letts in order to publish
a complete uniform edition of Anthony Trollope's astonishing output of 47 novels, runs
Annual Dinners, Christmas Parties, Garden Parties, Annual Lectures,
occasional walks round Victorian London and so on. Full details of their activities can be found on their
website at http://www.trollopesociety.org.
The American branch of The Trollope Society holds an Annual Dinner at
The Knickerbocker Club on Fifth Avenue, holds Christmas parties (usually combined with a
wine tasting), Annual Lectures, and other accasional events.
Both societies share the occasional publications: a literary magazine published three times per year,
Trollopiana, Compact Discs, Cassettes and other publisher's books on Trollope
(see Order Form).
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