My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.
Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.
I couldn't bear to see a chapter of the gospel turned into a chapter of Trollope.