A Charming Fellow

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A scornful reproach of being a socialite lies beneath this troubling tale by Frances Eleanor Trollope, Anthony Trollope’s sister-in-law and Frances Milton Trollope’s daughter-in-law. A Charming Fellow is a deep reflection of an inconsolably miserable marriage and its end results, as noted through the ogles of varied, expressive fictitious characters.

Frances Eleanor Ternan Trollope was a writer. She was born on board a paddle steamer in Delaware Bay, the eldest of the three living daughters of the actors Thomas Lawless Ternan and Frances Eleanor Jarman Ternan. Her parents were on tour for three years in North America after they got married in Edinburgh. Her father was the manager of the Theatre Royal in Newcastle upon Tyne where her mother was a prominent actress. The three daughters as well as Frances were asked to flaunt their acting talents.

Ellen Ternan, her younger sister, was the paramour of Charles Dickens and because of his intervention she was indorsed as a forthcoming tutor to the child of his widowed friend Thomas Trollope, after his wife Theodosia Trollope died. She later married Tom Trollope in spite of an age gap of 25 years. The marriage was set in five months of her being a tutor in Florence. She was his second wife. She and her husband resided in Italy from their marriage and then went back to England.

A few of her stories include: Aunt Margaret’s Trouble in 1866 as by “A New Writer”; Frances Eleanor Trollope used her own name in many of her other works; Mabel’s Progress in 1867; The Sacristan’s Household in 1869; Veronica in 1870; Anne Furness in 1871; Black Spirits and White in 1877; Like Ships Upon the Sea in 1883; That Unfortunate Marriage in 1888; Among Aliens in 1890; Madame Leroux in 1890; That Wild Wheel in 1892; The Fate of Fenella co-authored in 1892.
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