ABSTRACT
One aspect of Anthony Trollope’s novels stands out to a geographer, it is the way they register travel and mobility. Although it has been observed that for so prolific a traveller, Trollope’s novels are far from saturated with international travels, local journeys and smaller scale movements are integral to the unfolding of many of his works. Trollope’s travel diaries, it can be argued, were where the representational strategy was practised; they did not transport deep or detailed knowledge of place, rather, they transported a framework of connections, continuity and opportunity. To consider Trollope’s work in relation to the idea of en-route writing might seem tantamount to eclipsing the text in preference for the life of the author. The idea of route writing, or en-route writing, has its origins in I. S. MacLaren’s interest in the linear progression of travel writing from field notes, through a fuller journal, to draft manuscripts and a published book.
