Editing Anthony Trollope (section)

===Move to Ireland===
[[File:RoseTrollope.jpg|thumb|Rose Heseltine Trollope]]

In 1841, an opportunity to escape arose.<ref>Moore, W. S. (1928). "Trollope and Ireland", ''The Irish Monthly'', Vol. 56, No. 656, pp. 74–79.</ref> A postal surveyor clerk in central Ireland, reported as incompetent, needed replacement. The position was not regarded as desirable, but Trollope, in debt and in trouble at work, volunteered for it; and his supervisor, [[William Maberly]], eager to be rid of him, appointed him to the position.<ref name=auto3 />

Trollope's new work consisted largely of inspection tours in [[Connacht|Connaught]], and he based himself in [[Banagher]], [[Offaly|King's County.]] Although he had arrived with a bad [[job reference|reference]] from London, his new supervisor resolved to judge him on his merits, and within a year, by Trollope's account, he earned a reputation as a valuable public servant.<ref name=auto4>Trollope (1883). [https://web.archive.org/web/20080814183936/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/t/trollope/anthony/autobiography/chapter4.html Chapter 4.]  Retrieved 2 July 2010.</ref> His salary and travel allowance went much further in Ireland than they had in London, and he found himself enjoying a measure of prosperity.<ref name=auto3 /> He took up [[fox hunting]], which he would pursue enthusiastically for the next three decades. As a post-office surveyor, he interacted with local Irish people, whose company he found pleasant: "The Irish people did not murder me, nor did they even break my head. I soon found them to be good-humoured, clever—the working classes very much more intelligent than those of England—economical and hospitable."<ref name=auto4 />

At the watering place of [[Dún Laoghaire]], Trollope met Rose Heseltine (1821–1917),<ref name=auto4 /> the daughter of a [[Rotherham]] bank manager.<ref name=tsociety /> They became engaged when he had been in Ireland for just a year, but Trollope's debts and her lack of a fortune prevented them from marrying until 1844.  Soon after they wed, Trollope was transferred to another postal district in the south of Ireland, and the family moved to [[Clonmel]].<ref>Byrne, P. F. (1992). "Anthony Trollope in Ireland," ''Dublin Historical Record'', Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 126–128.</ref> Their first son, Henry Merivale, was born in 1846, and their second, Frederick James Anthony, in 1847.<ref>Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding, R. C. Terry, Macmillan, 1977, p. 249, Appendix I</ref>