Trollope on Economics, the Railway Mania, and Swindles

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Material in Trollope’s Novels

• Trollope on contemporary fraud, embezzlement, and stock swindles in The Three Clerks
• "What Power; — What Grandeur": Swindlers as Objects of Admiration in The Way We Live Now

Railways, the Railway Mania, and the Stock Market

Two Victorian swindlers (sources of Melmotte): George Hudson and John Sadleir

Advertisements for Railway Stocks and Bonds

The Amalgamation of Victorian Railways; or What Followed the Railway Mania

Railway Mania in the 1840s

“For Godsake be done with railways and shares!” — the Railway Panics of the 1840s

Railways and Victorian Literature — An Introduction

Related material

• Blackwood as Trollope’s Publisher

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