1860
CASTLE RICHMOND. | A Novel. | By Anthony Trollope. | Author of ‘Barchester Towers,’ ‘Doctor Thorne,’ ‘The West | Indies and the Spanish Main,’ etc. | In three volumes, | London: | Chapman and Hall, 193 Piccadilly. | 1860. | [The right of Translation is reserved.]
Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 303; Vol. II., pp. iv, 300; Vol. III., pp. vi, 289.
Declined by George Smith in November 1859 for the Cornhill Magazine, which was to appear for the first time some eight weeks hence, on the ground that it was an Irish story, this book was published later by Chapman & Hall, as originally intended, after Framley Parsonage had been running in the Cornhill. This was the only occasion on which Trollope had two different novels in his mind at the same time. He asked and obtained £600 for it on the success of The West Indies.
1861
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, | By | Anthony Trollope, | Author of “Barchester Towers,” etc. etc. | with Six Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. | In Three Volumes. | London: | Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill. | M.DCCC.LXI. | [The right of Translation is reserved.]
Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 333; Vol. II., pp. 318; Vol. III., pp. 330.
There are two illustrations in each volume, the list being on page iv. (unnumbered) of Vol. I.
Messrs. Smith & Elder, having offered Trollope £1000 for the copyright of a three-volume novel to appear serially in their new venture, the Cornhill, declined Castle Richmond on account of its Irish character, but begged him to frame some other story, suggesting the Church as a theme peculiar to his powers. He thereupon fell back on his old Barchester friends and wrote a tale that became increasingly popular as it proceeded. Framley Parsonage appeared in the Cornhill from January 1860 to April 1861. The author himself doubted the possibility of making a character more life-like than Lucy Robarts.