Frances Milton Trollope - The Vicar of Wrexhill: In Three Volumes

Frances Milton Trollope, an influential author born in 1779, began her writing career at fifty, driven by financial necessity. Her first notable work, Domestic Manners of the Americans, offered a critical yet witty perspective on American society. She made significant contributions to literature with her anti-slavery novel Jonathan Jefferson Whitlaw, which inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Michael Armstrong: Factory Boy, the first industrial novel in Britain. Trollope's extensive oeuvre includes the impactful Widow Barnaby trilogy and over 100 volumes, addressing themes of social injustice and corruption. She passed away in 1863.