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Theodosia Trollope|1825|1865| Theodosia Trollope (born 1825 died 1865), authoress, born in 1825, was the only daughter of Joseph Garrow (d. 1855), by his wife the daughter of Jewish parents, and the widow of a naval officer named Fisher. Her father was a grand-nephew of Sir William Garrow, and a son of an Indian officer who had married a high-caste Brahmine. From her mother she inherited skill as a musician, and she became an excellent linguist. By Landor's encouragement she became a contributor to Lady Blessington's annual, entitled 'The Book of Beauty', and later she wrote for Dickens's 'Household Words', and for the 'Athenæum' and other papers. The delicate state of her health prevented any extended literary toil, but she translated some of Dall' Ongaro's patriotic poems, and in 1846 produced a skilful metrical translation of Giovanni Battista Niccolini's 'Arnaldo da Brescia'. On 3 April 1848, at the British legation in Florence, she married Thomas Adolphus Trollope, and as his wife she created at the Villino Trollope one of the best known salons in Italy. In 1861 some twenty-seven of her papers to the 'Athenæum' were reprinted as 'Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution;' at the time of their appearance these letters were thought to have rendered good service to the cause of Italian freedom. In the same year she contributed to the 'Victoria Regia' ('A Mediterranean Bathing-place', Leghorn), and in 1864 she commenced a series of essays upon the Italian poets for the 'Cornhill Magazine'. She died at Florence on 13 April 1865, leaving one daughter, Beatrice. She was buried in the English cemetery at Florence. &#91;Gentlemen's Magazine 1865, i. 670; Athenæum, 1865, i. 555; Atlantic Monthly, December 1864; authorities cited under art. Trollope, Thomas Augustus.]

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