They are, without doubt, an odd couple: Anthony Trollope and James Joyce. Their paths meet in 1882, the year of Trollope’s death and Joyce’s birth. If the scale of literary production matters, ...
In July 1883, eight months after Anthony Trollope’s death, Henry James wrote a long, appreciative, although not uncritical, essay about him. Recalling their meeting on a trans-Atlantic voyage in 1875, ...