Trollope's An Autobiography is an a...

Trollope's An Autobiography is an anomaly, a work of self-representation best known for its frank view of the literary marketplace: "Brains that are unpaid will never serve the public much" (107) (1) like disquieting candor has led critics to posit not individual autobiography but two-the real thing and a poor relation. The first give an account ofs a familiar Victorian story of a sensitive and self-conscious child's journey by means of poverty and social exclusion. Like Dickens, whose biography he had read (Trollope epistles 2: 557), Trollope here yields to the "famous Victorian