Editing Anthony Trollope (section)

===Later years===
After the defeat at Beverley, Trollope concentrated entirely on his literary career. While continuing to produce novels rapidly, he also edited the ''St Paul's Magazine'', which published several of his novels in serial form.

"Between 1859 and 1875, Trollope visited the United States five times. Among American literary men he developed a wide acquaintance, which included [[James Russell Lowell|Lowell]], [[Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.|Holmes]], [[Ralph Waldo Emerson|Emerson]], [[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne|Hawthorne]], [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|Longfellow]], [[Bret Harte]], [[Artemus Ward]], [[Joaquin Miller]], [[Mark Twain]], [[Henry James]], [[William Dean Howells]], [[James T. Fields]], [[Charles Eliot Norton|Charles Norton]], [[John Lothrop Motley]], and [[Richard Henry Dana Jr.]]"<ref>William Coyle, "The Friendship of Anthony Trollope and Richard Henry Dana, Jr.," ''The New England Quarterly'', Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 1952), pp. 255-262 (quotation on p. 255).</ref>

Trollope wrote a travel book focusing on his experiences in the US during the [[American Civil War]] titled ''North America'' (1862). Aware that his mother had published a harshly [[Anti-Americanism|anti-American]] travel book about the U.S. (titled the ''[[Domestic Manners of the Americans]]'') and feeling markedly more sympathetic to the United States, Trollope resolved to write a work which would "add to the good feeling which should exist between two nations which ought to love each other." During his time in America, Trollope remained a steadfast supporter of the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]], being a committed [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|abolitionist]] who was opposed to the system of [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]] as it existed in the [[Southern United States|South]].<ref name="Buzard 5–18">{{Cite journal|last=Buzard|first=James|date=March 2010|title=Portable Boundaries: Trollope, Race, and Travel|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08905491003703998|journal=Nineteenth-Century Contexts|volume=32|issue=1|pages=5–18|doi=10.1080/08905491003703998|s2cid=191619030|issn=0890-5495}}</ref>

In 1871, Trollope made his first trip to [[Australia]], arriving in [[Melbourne]] on 28 July 1871 on the [[SS Great Britain|SS ''Great Britain'']],<ref>{{Cite web|title=SS Great Britain : Brunel's ss Great Britain|url=https://globalstories.ssgreatbritain.org/_/traveller/24266/|access-date=2021-07-21|website=globalstories.ssgreatbritain.org}}</ref> with his wife and their cook.<ref>Muir, Marcie (1949). ''Anthony Trollope in Australia'', Wakefield Press, p. 36.</ref> The trip was made to visit their younger son, Frederick, who was a sheep farmer near [[Grenfell, New South Wales]].<ref name = "NS19">Starck, Nigel (2008) "Anthony Trollope's travels and travails in 1871 Australia", ''National Library of Australia News'', XIX (1), p. 19</ref> He wrote his novel ''[[Lady Anna (novel)|Lady Anna]]'' during the voyage.<ref name = "NS19"/> In Australia, he spent a year and two days "descending mines, mixing with shearers and rouseabouts, riding his horse into the loneliness of the bush, touring lunatic asylums, and exploring coast and plain by steamer and stagecoach".<ref name = "NS20">Starck, p. 20</ref> He visited the penal colony of [[Port Arthur, Tasmania|Port Arthur]] and its cemetery, [[Isle of the Dead (Tasmania)|Isle of the Dead]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Trollope|first=Anthony|url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010728460|title=Australia and New Zealand.|publisher=Chapman and Hall|year=1876|location=London|pages=145–153|hdl=2027/mdp.39015010728460}}</ref> Despite this, the Australian press was uneasy, fearing he would misrepresent Australia in his writings. This fear was based on rather negative writings about America by his mother, Fanny, and by [[Charles Dickens]]. On his return, Trollope published a book, ''Australia and New Zealand'' (1873). It contained both positive and negative comments. On the positive side, it found a comparative absence of class consciousness and praised aspects of [[Perth]], Melbourne, [[Hobart]] and [[Sydney]].<ref name = "NS20"/> However, he was negative about Adelaide's river, the towns of [[Bendigo]] and [[Ballarat]], and the [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal population]]. What most angered the Australian papers, though, were his comments "accusing Australians of being braggarts".<ref name = "NS20"/><ref name="Buzard 5–18"/>

[[File:Anthony Trollope -Grave in Kensal Green Cemetery.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|Trollope’s grave in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]], London]]

Trollope returned to Australia in 1875 to help his son close down his failed farming business. He found that the resentment created by his accusations of bragging remained. Even when he died in 1882, Australian papers still "smouldered", referring yet again to these accusations, and refusing to fully praise or recognize his achievements.<ref name = "NS21">Starck, p. 21</ref>

In the late 1870s, Trollope furthered his travel writing career by visiting [[southern Africa]], including the [[Cape Colony]] and the [[Boer Republics]] of the [[Orange Free State]] and the [[South African Republic|Transvaal]]. Admitting that he initially assumed that the [[Afrikaners]] had "retrograded from civilization, and had become savage, barbarous, and unkindly", Trollope wrote at length on Boer cultural habits, claiming that the "roughness&nbsp;... [[Sparta]]n simplicity and the dirtiness of the Boer's way of life [merely] resulted from his preference for living in rural isolation, far from any town." In the completed work, which Trollope simply titled ''South Africa'' (1877), he described the [[Mining industry of South Africa|mining town]] of [[Kimberley, Northern Cape|Kimberly]] as being "one of the most interesting places on the face of the earth."<ref name="Buzard 5–18"/>

In 1880, Trollope moved to the village of [[South Harting]] in West Sussex. He spent some time in Ireland in the early 1880s researching his last, unfinished, novel, ''The Landleaguers''. It is said that he was extremely distressed by the violence of the [[Land War]].<ref>Stanford, Jane, 'That Irishman: The Life and Times of John O'Connor Power', Part Three, 'The Fenian is the Artist', pp. 123–124, The History Press Ireland, May 2011, {{ISBN|978-1-84588-698-1}}</ref>