Envious of people I see travelling to #UKSG2026 or #LILAC26 (tho aware as I sit doing nothing, recovering from #TrollopeConf, that going to another conference right now wouldn’t be good for my health!
Will enjoy following the hashtags over the next few days. Moving them to Current on my list now!
I’ve finished the ‘before attending a conference’ blog post I was writing yesterday morning. I’d been hoping to publish this before I attended the conference (which I’m now home from), but better late than never! #AliceWrites #TrollopeConf
Trollope takes on norms that are very rigid in his community, in society, and says maybe these shouldn’t be so rigid. #TrollopeConf
So much wonderful art illustrating this presentation! #TrollopeConf
The slow steps (slide) downward that lead someone into criminal behaviour. Downfall. Referring to Alaric Tudor in The Three Clerks. #TrollopeConf Reminding me of conversations last night about Lizzie Eustace.
Quote from He Knew He was Right: “Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English Novel?” (Caroline Spaulding). But Trollope made it very clear that he expected people were learning how to live from their reading. #TrollopeConf I love this!
Looking at a few examples, in many categories (in this taxonomy). Many more possible #TrollopeConf
Coming towards the end of #TrollopeConf now is a conversation between Professor Linda McClain and Claire Laporte: ‘A Taxonomy of Transgression in Anthony Trollope’s Novels’
The idea of the law isn’t the if rightly concludes. If concludes because it runs out of cause. #TrollopeConf I haven’t got this quite right, but I liked the point!
Trollope doesn’t like Mr Bold - you can tell because he kills him off (mentioned earlier in the talk). Same with Mrs Proudie (mentioned now towards the end of the talk) #TrollopeConf Bookending :)
Aristotle. Errors, not wrongs. Difference between intention and accidental. #TrollopeConf I’m thinking about plagiarism.
Fascinating looking at an action from Artistotle’s Rhetoric and relating each clause to an example from Trollope (Barset) #TrollopeConf I love this, and how much it is relating to my other recent reading.
Follow the law when it makes sense, but not when it’s not equitable. You cannot just follow the letter of the law. Aristotelian. Christian message. Example Mr Arabian saying/thinking this (Barsetshire Towers?) #TrollopeConf
In relation to Trollope being selective of the legal matters/issues he talks about. He is not a lawyer! He’s an author with a story to tell. #TrollopeConf Good point!
Trollope has the idea that perfection is unattractive. Value in imperfection. Talks about this in relation to women and beauty. Examples of people described as ‘too perfect’. Delight in, celebration of, imperfection. #TrollopeConf
Aristotle: ‘…the material of conduct is essentially irregularity…’ Could apply to all of Trollope #TrollopeConf
I have experience of writing a presentation abstract long before the actual presentation and then not really feeling I have the time/scope for all the topics! #TrollopeConf
Now we are hearing from Professor Gary Watt, on ‘Trollope and the Equitable Judgement of Human Failings’ #TrollopeConf Gary saying that it’s nice speaking at this point in the conference, having listened to other talks and be able to bring ideas from those in to his talk.
We were told earlier that most occasions where trustees broke the rules were where they were acting on the request of the recipient of the trustee. So most not stealing for themselves. #TrollopeConf
Question. Answer about other Victorian novels about trustees. Bleak House - maybe… The Moonstone. Others #TrollopeConf There were a few, but not many. Lots of stories in the papers about trustees stealing money.
Loving the lawyer’s quibble, explaining how you can be tried for stealing your own property #TrollopeConf
Question: interesting conclusion that Trollope is selective about the aspects of the law that he focused upon. (In The Three Clarks). #TrollopeConf
Recommendation of a book (quoted from): Trollope: Interviews and Recollections, edited by R.C. Terry #TrollopeConf
Trollope writer in his autobiography that The Three Clerks was the best book he’s written so far. Why didn’t he write more about trustees? Criticism of legal errors? More than that. A far as we know, he didn’t act as a trustee himself. #TrollopeConf
This is fascinating, seeing the timeline of trustee acts in the 1850s, and how the discussion around the bills for these acts in parliament, and in the press, likely informed Trollope. #TrollopeConf
A private trust (a different thing from charitable trust in The Warden) could allow a married woman’s property to remain separate #TrollopeConf
This is focusing on The Three Clerks, which I haven’t read (and wish I had!) #TrollopeConf
‘Presence and Absence: Transgressive Trustees and Anthony Trollope’, by Dr Hazel Vosper, is the next talk at #TrollopeConf
It was the telegraph system (and the international law to do with this) - which was managed by The Post Office (Trollope’s job) that enabled Madame Max Goesler to send back the evidence in time for Phineas to be acquitted. #TrollopeConf
British locksmiths were bound by a patent law saying that only the maker? could make? copies of a key. It is this that leads Mr Amelia to go abroad, where it was allowed, to copy the key. #TrollopeConf
