7. It's interesting that Jane Austen toyed with epistolary novel in juvenilia and perhaps in early draft of Pride & Prejudice.
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8. In effect, even in non-epistolary novels, writers like Austen are taking the contents of letters and giving them dramatic form.
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9. It's Anthony Trollope who best illustrates connection. Trollope's day job was working for the post office. Wrote novels before work day
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10. Trollope was actually the person who introduced the pill box (or mail box) to England (and later much of the world).
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11. Trollope: "It was the ambition of my life to cover the country with rural letter-carriers...."
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12. "I was... a beneficent angel to the public, bringing everywhere with me an earlier, cheaper, and much more regular delivery of letters"
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13. The two sides of Trollope (post office official & novelist writing about bourgeois love & ambition) were in fact one and the same.
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14. Trollope didn't write pure epistolary novels but his books are filled with letters as agents of friendships & courtships formed & broken
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15. What happens in 20th century is, as one would expect, the novelist/postal worker becoming plebeian (Faulkner, Richard Wright, Bukowski)
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