It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

: /ˈtrɒləp/; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. In late 1859 Trollope learned of preparations for the release of the Cornhill Magazine to be publiAnthony Trolloped by George Murray Smith and edited by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century. Some of his best-loved works collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.