novel-material

Updated: August 11, 2026

It has been said that Trollope is a typical novelist, and the type is of sufficient importance to receive a little attention, even in space so jealously allotted as ours must be. And everything that he saw he could turn into excellent novel-material. No one has touched him in depicting the humours of a public office, few in drawing those of cathedral cities and the hunting-field.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)