Though they didn't always see eye-to-eye, both Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope knew what it was to be a giant of Victorian literature, and both had, at some level, an appreciation of each other's talent. Dickens once wrote of Trollope (in an 1869 letter to Trollope's brother), "He is a perfect cordial to me, whenever and wherever I see him, as the heartiest and best of fellows."
So let us Dickensians wish Mr. Trollope a very happy bicentenary!
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