Crusoe was a gentleman

John Sutherland

  • The Gentleman in Trollope: Individuality and Moral Conduct by Shirley Letwin
    Macmillan, 303 pp, £15.00, May 1982, ISBN 0 333 31209 0
  • The Idea of the Gentleman in the Victorian Novel by Robin Gilmour
    Allen and Unwin, 208 pp, £10.00, October 1981, ISBN 0 04 800005 1

This year brings the centenary of Trollope’s death. On the whole, the anniversary has been taken calmly by his countrymen: with far less celebration than, for instance, George Eliot received in 1980. There is to be no British Library exhibition (although they hold significant manuscripts); no plaque in the Abbey (although Trollope was more devout than the other novelist); no portrait stamp, no commemorative pillar-box at Waltham Cross. Perhaps the Surtees Society will do something for ‘the novelist who hunted the fox’.

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