Abstract
OF TROLLOPE'S FULL-SCALE BIOGRAPHERS the only one to have known him was Thomas Sweet Escott, and he mentions that the future novelist received his first lessons in religion from J. W. Cunningham, the Vicar of Harrow whom Frances Trollope has scabrously immortalized as the Vicar of Wrexhill in the novel of that name. Mrs. Trollope did not like Evangelicals, or at any rate she did not like Cunningham. The reasons given vary. Michael Sadleir, for example, attributes it in part to encouragements from the Drurys of Harrow School, in part from Cunningham's own canting behavior. ' Trollope himself may have inherited some of his own dislike from his mother, although Escott comments:
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