Introduction to the Society

Anthony Trollope wrote forty-seven novels: three times as many as Dickens. The average standard of them all is extremely high, and the vast majority are as readable and enjoyable today as The Warden or Barchester Towers. Yet, up to the year 2000, over 100 years after the author´s death, no complete edition had been published. The historian Paul Johnson called this extraordinary omission "absurd and humiliating", and said "We owe it to our national honor to put this right".

The American Trollope Society was created in 1989 in New York in response to American enthusiasts. Its purpose, like its precursor in England , is to promote interest in - and awareness of - the work of Anthony Trollope. To that end, members of the Society are entitled to purchase, from the Trollope Society in London, volumes from their Complete Edition of Trollope´s novels. The first four novels were published in 1989, and four further books were published each year until the project was completed in the year 2000.

Philip Ziegler wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: "One of the delights of this edition was that each six-monthly package contained one well-known and one obscurer work. Ayala´s Angel came escorted by Can You Forgive Her?, Dr Wortle´s School by Phineas Finn. Only the most assiduous Trollopian encountered no new experiences as the great procession of publications wound its way pleasurably to the end. To invest in the entire series is like laying down a cellar of good wine - a gesture of confidence in the future."

Membership of the Society runs from January 1st until December 31st of each year, is payable in advance and entitles the member to purchase any of the 48 volumes and take part in a number of activities described in more detail on this website. A membership form can be completed on line, downloaded and posted to the Society's address in New York.

To connect to the Trollope Society website click this link.