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FRANCES TROLLOPE-MILTON (1780-1863), was
a matriarch of a clan of writers; herself, two sons and two
daughters-in-law.
To raise her family she had travelled to America and in Cincinatti had
engaged the young Hiram Powers
to
do Dante's Commedia
in wax. She arrived in Florence with her son Thomas Adolphus in 1843
and
took up residence in Piazza Santa Croce, immediately entering into
friendly
relations with notables of the Court and the British community. In 1849
she moved with her son and daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow to a little
house, Villino Trollope, in Piazza Maria Antonia (now Independenza).
She
dedicated
herself to the theatre, organized Anglo-Florentine social life, and
wrote
prolifically, and her house became a meeting place and obligatory
reference
point even for such writers as Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and
Thackeray.
Her son's autobiography,
What I Remember (London, 1887), is a splendid
window on cosmopolitan and cultivated Florence. LS.
The Mediatheca
'Fioretta
Mazzei' has these two volumes, as well as
books
written by and about Fanny Trollope.

Tom, Fanny, Bice, and
Theodosia
Trollope
nel Villino Trollope, Piazza
dell'Indipendenza

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THEODOSIA
TROLLOPE-GARROW
(1825-1865), when an
invalid
child in Torquay, had known Elizabeth Barrett, likewise a child
invalid.
Theodosia Garrow arrived in Florence in 1845 with her father, Joseph
Garrow
(who is buried near her tomb), an able violinist, and her mother, who
became
friendly with their neighbours, the Trollopes, as a result of a visit
by
their mutual friend Charles Dickens. She married Thomas Adolphus
Trollope
and moved to the little house in Piazza Maria Antonia in 1848. She was
a
talented
writer with a wonderful mastery of Italian and translated works by
Giusti
and G.B. Nicolini. A fanatic supporter of the cause of Italian
independence,
she published a history of the Tuscan Revolution in the Athenaeum.
LS
B23G
§624/ JOSEPH
GARROW/ INDIA/
Cippo. Marmista
ignoto.
Sec.
XIX,
post
1857/11.
Ambito
toscano.
Cippo
in
pietra serena andato a sostituire il cippo originario (non
siamo a conoscenza dell'epoca in cui questo è avvenuto), frammenti cippo originario
conservati, inciso con
iscrizione sepolcrale in latino in
lettere capitali e numeri arabi, epitaffio di
Thomas
Adolphus Trollope, genero di Joseph Garrow. [M:
A: 104. L: 60. P: 19.] Iscrizione
sepolcrale in latino in lettere capitali e numeri arabi: HIC
JACET IOSEPHUS GARROW/ ARMr/ DE BRADDONS IN AGRO DEVON/ APUD INDOS
NATUS/
A.D. 1789/ FLORENTIAN DENATUS/ A.D. 1857/
Registro alfabetico delle persone tumulate
nel Cimitero di Pinti:
Garrow/
+/ Giuseppe/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 10 Novembre/ 1867 [1857]/ Anni 67/
624/ Eglise
Evangelique-Reformée
de Florence Régistre des Morts:
Joseph Garrow, d'Angleterre/ /
father of Theodosia Garrow-Trollope
(12 Aprile/ 1865/ Anni 46/ 904/+/ C11E),
stepfather of Harriet Theodosia Fisher (12 Novembre/ 1848/ Anni
37/ 393/ Latin epitaph written by
Thomas Adolphus Trollope).
See Giuliana Artom Treves,
Golden Ring, pp. 137/ Records, Guildhall Library,
London:
GL23777/1 N°242,
Burial 12/11, Rev O'Neill; marriage of child Theodosia 03/04/48 to
Thomas
Adolphus Trollope at HBM (Hamilton), Joseph Garrow, Harriet Fisher,
Frances
Trollope present, Rev Robbins/ Maquay
Diaries:
13 Nov 1857/ Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember,
II.150-159/ See
Theodosia Trollope, Harriet Fisher. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata
Svizzera, 1827-. 2009.

C23G §393/ HARRIET
THEODOSIA FISHER (GARROW)/ ENGLAND/
Cippo.
Marmista ignoto. Sec. XIX,
post 11/1848. Ambito toscano. Una
tabella
di
marmo
bianco,
ora
con
frattura, dentro una stele di veined
marmo sopra basamento di
pietra serena: [M: A: 2; L: 82.5; P: 44.2; Veined
Marble:: A: 58.5; L: 97; P: 7.3; P.s.: A:
29.5; L: 71; P: 20.] Iscrizione sepolcrale inglese incisa in
lettere capitali e numeri arabi: SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/
HARRIET THEODOSIA FISHER/ STEP DAUGHTER OF JOSEPH GARROW/ OF BRADDONS
TORQUAY
DEVON ESQ/ WHO DIED UNIVERSALLY REGRETTED/ AT FLORENCE NOV 12 1848/
AGED
37 YEARS/ FOR ONE SO LOVING AND DUTIFUL/ OF GENEROUS COMPASSIONATE AND/
SELF DENYING LET US NOT WEEP AS THOSE WHO HAVE NO HOPE FOR/ WE KNOW
THAT
OUR BELOVED/ HAS RECEIVED HER REWARD/ Registro
alfabetico delle
tumulazione nel Cimitero di Pinti: Fischer/ Enrichetta
Teodosia/ / Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 12 Novembre/
1848/
Anni 37/ 393/ Records, Guildhall Library, London: GL
23774
N°
26:
Burial
14-11,
Rev
Robbins,
Joseph
Garrow's
stepdaughter, Theodosia Garrow's half sister/
Thomas Adolphus Trollope, What I Remember, II.150-152, noting
their
mother was formerly a Miss Abrams and Jewish, who first married a naval
officer, Fisher, then Joseph Garrow, whose own mother was East Indian;
and that Harriet died of smallpox. Chiesa Evangelica
Riformata Svizzera, 1827-. 2009.
See Olive
Baldwin and Thelma Wilson, 'Tom Trollope's Mother-in-Law', http://www.florin.ms/garrows.html

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B15D §1220/ HIRAM
POWERS/
AMERICA/ Tomba. Scultore, Preston
Powers: Sec. XIX, post 1873/6. Ambito toscano. Tomba in marmo, tomba semplice e
imponente,
marmo sporco, poggiante su basamento in pietra serena, recinto in
pietra
serena e ferro. Intervento conservativo sul ferro Daniel Dumitrescu,
anno 2008. [M: A: 35.
L: 163.5 P: 104.5; P.s. A:
21. L: 155. P: 96. Recinto: A: 91. L: 261. P: 202.] Iscrizione
sepolcrale in lettere capitali e numeri arabi in piombo: HIRAM
POWERS/ DIED
JUNE
27TH 1873/ AGED 68/ Registro
alfabetico
delle
persone
tumulate
nel
Cimitero
di
Pinti:
Powers/ Franco [later corrected to Hiram]/
Stefano/
America/ Firenze/ 27 Giugno/ 1873/ Anni 69/ 1220/ Eglise
Evangelique-Reformée
de Florence Régistre des Morts: F. Hiram
Powers,
America, Sculpteur, fils de Etienne Powers/
°=Niccolò,
Alessio Michahelles, descendants.Belle Arti 1993-1997 scheda. Chiesa Evangelica Riformata
Svizzera, 1827-. 2009.

Contemporary Photograph in the Diary of Susan Horner, 1861-1862. see the entries for Horner and Zileri for members of this family.
HIRAM POWERS
(1805-1873), an
American,
even American Indian, came to Florence in 1837 to study and work, and
settled
in Via Serragli, the artists' street of the day, with his wife and two
children. He earned an international reputation for his statuary, for
which
he liked to choose the marble and supervise its quarrying himself, and
he received considerable acclaim for the busts he did of several
presidents
of the United States. The cemetery also contains evidence of his grief:
James (+1838), Frances (+1857) and Florence (+1857), his children, who
died at five, eight and seventeen years of age in this their adopted
land.
LS
See Giuliana Artom Treves, Golden
Ring, passim. We are seeking descendants of Hiram Powers, son of
Hiram
Powers, the sculptor, who moved to Florida where he married and had a
daughter.

This statue, 'The Greek Slave', was the centrepiece of the Crystal Palace Exhibition and the subject of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnet. It shows a Greek Christian slave being auctioned by Muslim Turks. In her poem Elizabeth draws the analogy also to American enslavement of Africans, Russian enslavement of serfs. Near Hiram Powers' tomb is that of Nadezda (Hope) De Santis, a black Nubian slave baptized Orthodox, who died in Florence in freedom.

Hiram Powers' 'The Last of Her Tribe', shows a Native American woman fleeing her captors. Every detail is observed down to the delicate sewing of the mocassins. The theme repeats that of 'The Greek Slave', a woman representing freedom against male oppressors.

Hiram Powers' statue of America, which is more truly American and
more
beautiful, than the Statue of Liberty, the gift of France. This plaster
cast was discovered in his Florentine studio in 1966, along with many
others,
were purchased by museums in Washington, D.C. but have not been
adequately
studied, publicized or exhibited. Margaret Fuller's death, along with
her
husband and baby in the shipreck of the Elizabeth off Fire
Island
was partly caused by the colossal statue by Hiram Powers in its hold.
Nathanael
Hawthorne observed him and his studio for the writing of The Marble
Faun . Among Powers' works is the head of the Princess Matilde
Buonaparte
Demidoff. Hiram Powers' sculpture career had begun with his modelling
Dante's
Commedia
in
wax in Cincinatti, Ohio, for Frances
Trollope
.
THOMAS
SMITH SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861), was
a well-known medical doctor who promoted public health reforms and good
works supported by the Anglo-Florentine community. His tombstone,
sculpted
by John Hart, inscribed with verses by Leigh Hunt (the terse poet of
early
English Romanticism), is near that of Theodore Parker, many of whose
philosophic
ideas he shared. LS
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*
Anthony Trollope. Barchester Towers. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. Can You Forgive Her? Harmondsworth: Penguin,1986. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. Doctor Thorne. Harmondworth: Penguin, 1991. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. Dr Wortle's School. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1999. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. The Duke's Children. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2002.
Anthony Trollope. The Eustace Diamonds. Harmondwworth: Penguin, 1986. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. Framley Parsonage. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. He Knew He Was Right. Harmondworth: Penguin, 1994. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. The Last Chronicle of Barset. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1986. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. Phineas Redux. London: Chapman & Hall, 4th edition. David R. Gilbert, Maidenheand, 2002.
Anthony Trollope. Phineas Finn, The Irish Member. Harmonsdworth: Penguin, 1995. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2002.
Anthony Trollope. The Prime Minister. Harmonsdworth: Penguin, 1994. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2002.
Anthony Trollope. Ralph the Heir. London: Oxford University Press, 1951. Syracuse University, Florence, 2005.
Anthony Trollope. Tales of all Countries. Fourth Edition. London: Chapman and Hall, 1869. David Gilbert, Maidenhead, 2004.
Anthony Trollope. Tales of all Countries. London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. David R. Gilbert, Maidenhead, 2002.
Anthony Trollope. The Small House at Allington. Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1991. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001.
Anthony Trollope. The Warden, ed. Robin Gilmour. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2000. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2000.
Anthony Trollope. The Way We Live Now. Harmonsdworth, Penguin: 1994. PenguinItalia, Milano, 2001. Yvonne and Nello Boni, Bournemouth, 2006.
Frances Trollope. Domestic Manners of
the
Americans.
Lithographs by Auguste Hervieu. London: The Folio Society, 1974. David
R. Gilbert, Maidenhead, 2003.
Frances Trollope. Domestic Manners of the Americans.
Stroud: Nonsuch, 2006. Pearl Spedding, Bath, 2010.
Frances Trollope. Michael Armstrong The Factory Boy.
Stroud: Nonsuch, 2007. Judy Fichtenbaum, Concord, 2009.
Frances Trollope. Paris and the Parisians in 1835. Engravings, A. Hervieu. London: Richard Bentley, 1836. 2 vols. Jeffrey Begeal, North Carolina, 2004.
Frances Trollope. Vienna and the
Austrians.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1938. 2 vols. David Gilbert,
Maidenhead,
2004.
Frances Trollope. Widow Barnaby. London: C.M. Clarke,
n.d. David Middlewood, Northampton, 2010.
Pamela Neville-Sington. Fanny Trollope: The Life and
Adventures
of
a Clever Woman. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1997. 2 copies. Pamela
Neville-Sington, London, 2000.
Teresa Ransom. Fanny Trollope. Forward, Victoria Glendenning. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995.
David Gilbert. "Frances Milton
Trollope: A Remarkable Victorian
Lady".
Maidenhead, England, 2002.
Thomas Adolphus Trollope. The Story of the Life of Pius the Ninth. London: Richard Bentley, 1877. Syracuse University, Florence, 2005. Vol. II of two volumes. The Library would appreciate Vol. I of this book.
*Anna Maria Crino. "La Firenze granducale dell'Ottocento negli scritti di Thomas Adolphus Trollope". From Nuova Rivista Storica 33 (1949), 1-29.
Winifred Gregory Gerould and James Thayer Gerould. A Guide
to
Trollope.
London: The Trollope Society, 1976. David Gilbert, Maidenhead, 2004.
Robert C. Vitz. The Queen
and the Arts: Cultural Life in Nineteenth-Century Cincinnati.
Kent, Ohio, Kent State University Press, 1989. Robert C. Vitz,
Kentucky, 2006.
The Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' would appreciate these volumes:
Frances Eleanor Trollope. Frances
Trollope: Her Life and Literary Workd from George III to Victoria.

Edmund White, Fanny: A Fiction
The
Mediatheca 'Fioretta Mazzei' would appreciate this book