Concept of Politics Anthony Trollpe’s Novels

Pages:37-38
Kailash Chander (Research Scholar, Dravidian University Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh)

Born in 1815, at Keppel street, Russel Square, and dead in 1882, Trollope, just after having completed his basic education, joined as a clerk in St. Martin’s Grand where he was utterly impecunious, beginning to fall grievously into debt. He was asked by one of his uncles, a clerk in the war office, what goal he should like the best for his future life. He replied that he would like to be a Member of Parliament. The uncle, who was give to sarcasm, rejoined that, as far as he had known, few clerks in the post office had become a Member of Parliament. Trollope thought that it was the remembrance of this jeer which stirred him up to look for a constituency as soon as he had made himself capable of holding one by leaving the public service.