Written in June and July 1867 for Blackwood’s Magazine, in which it appeared anonymously. Neither this nor Nina Balatka was a success, and Blackwood declined the third such tale which was ready for him. (See The Golden Lion of Granpère, 1872, below.) Trollope received £450, which was probably not more than half the sum he would have obtained had he allowed his name to appear.
1869
PHINEAS FINN, | THE IRISH MEMBER. | By | Anthony Trollope. | With Twenty Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. | In Two Volumes. | London: | Virtue & Co., 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row. | 1869. | [All rights reserved.]
8vo. Vol. I., pp. vi, 320; Vol. II., pp. vi, 328.
The total sum received for this book was £3200. Completed in May 1867, it appeared in the following October in the new St. Paul’s Magazine, founded by James Virtue, and edited by Trollope for three and a half years at a salary of £1000 a year. He attended the gallery of the House of Commons for two months in order to describe correctly the ways and doings of a Parliamentary member. It ran till May 1869. See also note to Can You Forgive Her? above.
1869
HE KNEW HE WAS | RIGHT | By Anthony Trollope | With Sixty-four Illustrations by Marcus Stone | (device of an anchor with the motto ‘Anchora Spei’) | Strahan and Company, Publishers, | 56, Ludgate Hill, London | 1869 |
8vo. In Two Volumes. Vol. I., pp. ix, 384; Vol. II., pp. ix, 384.
First appeared in thirty-two weekly parts (the first four parts being sewed in one); from November 7, 1867 to May 22, 1868.... Price Sixpence each. The paper cover had an illustration by Marcus Stone, and the publishers were Virtue & Company, 294 City Road, and 26 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; New York: 12 Dey Street, the proprietors of the St. Paul’s Magazine. The total sum received for this book was £3200. It was finished during the negotiations for a postal treaty undertaken by Trollope at Washington.