Trollopianadj.n.

1847 W. Howitt in Howitt's Jrnl. 9 Jan. 18/1 Mrs. Trollope was introduced to the court circles—everything was shown to her, and the urbane minister was so particularly polite, that, instead of a Trollopean laughter, there was nothing but laudation.

1903 G. Gissing Private Papers Henry Ryecroft 213 Any Trollopean work that lay upon the counter.

1907 T. Hardy Let. 29 Sept. in One Rare Fair Woman (1972) 134 Our Fatal Shadows..shows I think a great advance upon your previous novels... It is quite Trollopian.

1939 C. S. Lewis Let. 24 Nov. (1966) 171 The Curé and the whole cathedral surroundings in Tours are almost Trollopian.

1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Oct. 637/4 A Trollopean setting and situation, a cathedral town and a Dean's daughter about to be married.

1980 Daily Tel. 12 July 9/2 The ‘Strangers and Brothers’ sequence..was a conscious effort to write a social history in novel form on a Trollopian scale.

1983 M. Duggan Runcie xii. 173 The paper's Trollopian report next day—‘“Good Heavens!” cried the chaplain.’

1910 A. D. Godley Reliquiae (1926) II. 316 In Trollope one remembers the characters, but I never met more than one Trollopian who knew the plots apart.

1946 Notes & Queries 23 Feb. 67/1 We receive..from the University of California Press the first number of ‘The Trollopian: A Semi-annual Journal Devoted to Studies in Anthony Trollope and His Contemporaries in Victorian Fiction’.

1969 J. Gross Rise & Fall Man of Lett. ix. 245 Michael Sadleir..well known as biographer, bibliographer, Trollopean, and author of Fanny by Gaslight.