What is the Bloomsbury Project?
The Leverhulme-funded UCL Bloomsbury Project was established to investigate 19th-century Bloomsbury’s development from swampy rubbish-dump to centre of intellectual life
Led by Professor Rosemary Ashton, with Dr Deborah Colville as Researcher, the Project has traced the origins, Bloomsbury locations, and reforming significance of hundreds of progressive and innovative institutions
Many of the extensive archival resources relating to these institutions have also been identified and examined by the Project, and Bloomsbury’s developing streets and squares have been mapped and described
This website is a gateway to the information gathered and edited by Project members during the Project’s lifetime, 1 October 2007–30 April 2011, with the co-operation of Bloomsbury’s institutions, societies, and local residents
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Bloomsbury and the Bloomsbury Project
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Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
a summary of his Bloomsbury connections
He was born at 16 Keppel Street, and baptised in St George’s, Bloomsbury
He was involved with the Royal Literary Fund for the last twenty years of his life
Trollope places a number of characters in his novels and stories in Bloomsbury addresses; his novel Lady Anna (1874) is largely set in Bloomsbury
For more general biographical information about Anthony Trollope, see his entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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