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386 Author:Frances Trollope (1780-1863).— Novelist and miscellaneous writer, b. at Stapleton near Bristol, m. (Milton) in 1809 Thomas A. T., a barrister, who fell into financial misfortune. She then in 1827 went with her family to Cincinnati, where the efforts which she made to support herself were unsuccessful. On her return to England, however, she brought herself into notice by publishing Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), in which she gave a very unfavourable and grossly exaggerated account of the subject; and a novel, The Refugee in America, pursued it on similar lines. Next came The Abbess and Belgium and Western Germany, and other works of the same kind on Paris and the Parisians, and Vienna and the Austrians followed. Thereafter she continued to pour forth novels and books on miscellaneous subjects, writing in all over 100 vols. Though possessed of considerable powers of observation and a sharp and caustic wit, such an output was fatal to permanent literary success, and none of her books are now read. She spent the last 20 years of her life at Florence, where she d. in 1863. Her third s. was, the well-known novelist (q.v.). Her eldest s., Thomas Adolphus Trollope, wrote The Girlhood of Catherine de Medici, a History of Florence, and Life of Pius IX., and some novels.  Author:John Trumbull (1750-1831).—Poet, b. at Waterbury, Conn., was a lawyer, and became a judge. He wrote much verse, his principal productions being The Progress of Dulness (1772) and McFingal (1782), written in support of the Revolution in imitation of Hudibras.  Author:Abraham Tucker (1705-1774).—Philosophic writer, b. in London, and ed. at Oxf., was a country gentleman, who devoted himself to the study of philosophy, and wrote under the name of Edward Search, a work in 7 vols., The Light of Nature Followed (1768-78). It is rather a miscellany than a systematic treatise, but contains much original and acute thinking.  Author:George Tucker (1775-1861).—Economist, etc., b. in Bermuda, became Prof, of Moral Philosophy, etc., in the Univ. of Virginia. He wrote a Life of Jefferson, Political History of the United States, Essays Moral and Philosophical, The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel, A Voyage to the Moon (satire), and various works on economics.  Author:Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851) (1784-1851).—B. in Virginia, became a Prof. of Law in William and Mary Coll. He wrote a novel, The Partisan Leader (1836), a prophecy of the future disunion which led to the Civil War. It was re-pub, in 1861 as A Key to the Southern Conspiracy. Another novel was George Balcombe.  Author:Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813-1871).—Essayist, etc., b. in Boston, Mass. He was a sympathetic and delicate critic, with a graceful style. He lived much in Italy, which influenced his choice of subjects in his earlier writings. These include The Italian Sketch-book, Isabel, or Sicily, Thoughts on the Poets, The Book of the Artists, Leaves from the Diary of a Dreamer, etc.  Author:John Tulloch (1823-1886).—Theologian and historical writer, b. at Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, studied at St. Andrews and