ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with Sutherland’s excellent work in order to underscore the highly routinised nature of Anthony Trollope’s writing practice. It begins with the manuscript material that documents Trollope’s writing but explores the spatialities of what appears to be a very routine way of proceeding. The Way We Live Now was written in the latter years of Trollope’s life and, as Sutherland points out, the pre-publication material that survives for it is particularly rich. Trollope’s work plan is not a diary in the Pepysian tradition, but its spatial form is similar. It is comprised of provisionally blank, uniform and successive durations, each of which is dated and follows chronologically the one preceding it. Trollope composed the book’s first node relatively easily he similarly made light work of the second node and the third node, which was the critical interview between Bertram and Caroline, wherein they broke off their engagement.
