ABSTRACT
In the nineteenth century authors frequently incorporated autobiographical sites into their fiction, as Anthony Trollope did in Orley Farm. A text that thematises the legal contestation of space, its characters' residences resemble or are coincidentally located within houses and neighbourhoods the author knew early on in his life. The chapter addresses one particularly interesting example of this multiple occupancy of space, which occurs in the life and fiction of one of the most prolific writers of the period. Trollope's sixth novel, Orley Farm, places a number of its characters in settings that strongly resemble houses and neighbourhoods the author and his family knew early on in his life. It was a relatively common phenomenon in the nineteenth century for authors to make use of avatars of homes and neighbourhoods known intimately to them in order to house characters in their novels. Trollope's novel is actually more autobiographical in its spatial reference than the Autobiography explicitly acknowledges.
