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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16. With post-modern fragmentation, mail is no longer socially cohesive but marked with paranoia: secret postal service of Crying of Lot 49
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17. Anyways, I could go on. Tweets 18-40 would be taken up with this. but will end for nowhttps://twitter.com/nothingsmonstrd/status/855148783155499011 …
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18. Special Coda: Faulkner's letter of resignation when he quite working as post master:https://twitter.com/kylewrather/status/855148533451829248 …
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Tweet # 42 Two most famous epistolary novels (Clarissa, Les Liaisons Dangereuses) both tales of amoral decadent aristocrats.
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True -- with Clarissa at lease letters are away for bourgy heroine to find expressive freedom against decadent aristocrat.
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And both offer female non-aristo reader dark glimpses & titillating warning a la 'Afterschool Specials" or Lamb on Byron ("m. b., d. to k.")
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