"and , the principal family historians, both wrote that it was Mr Trollope's idea that should go to America. They may have been fudging the real issues here, just as they fudged the long association of Mrs Trollope with ."
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Victoria Glendinning
(née Seebohm; born 23 April 1937) is a British biographer, novelist, critic, and broadcaster. Her biography Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions (1981) won the .Two of her biographies, Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West (1983) and Anthony Trollope (1992), won the . She was elected in 1982 a Fellow of the and was appointed in 1998 (CBE).
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