Having married and settled in Florence in the 1840s, the poet and translator Theodosia Trollope (1816 65) found herself well placed to chronicle the events which contributed to the unification of Italy. While another Englishwoman in Italy, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, would become better known for her verse, Trollope nevertheless firmly established herself in the liberal and literary circles of Florentine society, allowing her to witness at first hand, and explore in prose, the effects that the Risorgimento was having on those living through it. Vividly capturing the unfolding situation in...
Having married and settled in Florence in the 1840s, the poet and translator Theodosia Trollope (1816 65) found herself well placed to chronicle the e...