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    Following the Oxford Trollope, edited by Michael Sadleir
and Frederick Page (1952),the second ‘left’ has been changed to ‘right’ in the sentence: ‘His left hand was clenched, and from time to time with his left he rubbed the thin hairs on his brow.’
    p. 601     Again following Sadleir and Page, the first ‘not’ has been omitted from ‘As a woman not utterly disgraced it could not become her again to laugh…’
    FURTHER READING
    General works on Trollope, many of them now ratherdated, include Bradford A. Booth,
Anthony Trollope: Aspects of His Life and Art
(London, 1958), A. O. J. Cockshut,
Anthony Trollope
(London, 1955), Robert M. Polhemus,
The Changing World of Anthony Trollope
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968), P. D. Edwards,
Anthony Trollope: His Art and Scope
(St Lucia, Queensland, 1977); Geoffrey Harvey,
The Art of Anthony Trollope
(London, 1980), Arthur Pollard,
Anthony Trollope
(London, 1978), Michael Sadleir,
Trollope: A Commentary
(London, 1927), L P. and R. P. Stebbins,
The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family
(London, 1946), R C. Terry,
Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding
(London, 1977), Robert Tracy,
Trollope’s Later Novels
(Berkeley, 1978), and Stephen Wall,
Trollope and Character
(London, 1988).
    Despite a number of serious bibliographicalerrors, Donald Smalley (ed.),
Anthony Trollope: The Critical Heritage
(London, 1969), contains a useful collection of Victorian criticism of Trollope’s fiction. Trollope’s contemporary reception is analysed in David Skilton,
Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Conventions of Mid-Victorian Fiction
(London, 1972,1996). An annotated bibliography of later criticism isfound in J. C. Olmsted and J. E. Welch,
The Reputation of Trollope: An Annotated Bibliography 1925–1975
(New York, 1978), and a fuller listing of Trollope editions as well as selected secondary works is found in
Anthony Trollope: A Collector’s Catalogue 1847–1990
(London: the Trollope Society, 1992). The standard descriptive bibliography of Trollope’s works in their original editions is MichaelSadleir,
Trollope: A Bibliography
(London, 1928).
    The best reference work on Trollope, his life and work is the
Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope,
edited by R. C. Terry (Oxford, 1999), while the most scholarly biographies are N. John Hall,
Trollope: A Biography
(Oxford, 1991), and R. H. Super,
The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of Anthony Trollope
(Ann Arbor, 1988). Richard Mullen,
AnthonyTrollope: A Victorian in His World
(London, 1990) gives a more opinionated account, and Victoria Glendinning’s
Anthony Trollope
(London,1992) is fascinating and exceptionally readable, containing very plausible speculations about unknown aspects of the author’s life, including his marriage. Trollope’s letters are admirably collected in N.John Hall (ed.),
The Letters of Anthony Trollope
(Stanford,CA, 1983). Also useful in the study of Trollope as a public and private figure is R. C. Terry (ed.),
Trollope: Interviews and Recollections
(London, 1987).

CHAPTER 2
Everett Wharton
    On that same day Lopez dined with his friend Everett Wharton at a new club, called the Progress, of which they were both members. The Progress was certainly a new club, having as yet been open hardly more than three years; but still it was old enough to have seen many of the hopes of its early youth become dim with age and inaction. For the Progress had intended to dogreat things for the Liberal party, – or rather for political liberality in general, – and hadin truth done little or nothing. It had been got up with considerable enthusiasm, and for a while certain fiery politicians had believed that through the instrumentality of this institution men of genius, and spirit, and natural power, but without wealth, – meaning always themselves, – would be suppliedwith sure seats in Parliament and a probable share in the Government. But no such results had been achieved.