a formative influence on her son's elaborate and colourful cast of characters in Barchester Towers, notably Mrs. Proudie. Later life and death In later years Frances Trollope continued to write novels and books on miscellaneous subjects – in all over 100 volumes. In her own time, she was considered to have acute powers of observation and a sharp and caustic wit, but her prolific production coupled with the rise of modernist criticism caused her works to be overlooked in the 20th century. Few of her books are now read, but her first and two others are available on Project Gutenberg. After the death of her husband and daughter, in 1835 and 1838 respectively, Trollope moved to Florence, Italy, having lived briefly at Carleton, Eden in Cumbria, but finding that (in her son Tom's words) "the sun yoked his horses too far from Penrith town." One year, she invited Theodosia Garrow to be her house guest. Garrow married her son Thomas Adolphus, and the three lived together until Trollope's death in 1863. She was buried near four other members of the Trollope household in the English Cemetery of Florence. Major works Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832) Belgium and Western Germany in 1833 (1834) Tremordyn Cliff (1835) Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (1836) The Life and Adventures of Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw; or Scenes on the Mississippi (1836) retitled Lynch Law; etc. in 1857 edition The Vicar of Wrexhill (1837) Vienna and the Austrians (1838) The Widow Barnaby (1839) The Widow Married; A Sequel to the Widow Barnaby (1840) The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy (1840) Charles Chesterfield, or the Adventures of a Youth of Genius (1841) A Visit to Italy (1842) The Refugee in America (1842) The Ward of Thorpe-Combe (1842) The Barnabys in America, or Adventures of the Widow Wedded (1843) Jessie Phillips: A Tale of the Present Day (1844) Young Love, A Novel (1844) Travels and Travelers: A Series of Sketches (1846) Town and Country, A Novel (1848) The Young Countess, or, Love and Jealousy (1848) The Old World and the New, A Novel (1849) The Lottery of Marriage (1849) Petticoat Government, A Novel (1850) Mrs. Mathews, or Family Mysteries, A Novel (1851) The Young Heiress, A Novel (1853) See also Frances Trollope bibliography Trollope Frances Wright References Sources This article on her son has a short biography of her. Further reading E. Bigland,