Anthony Trollope

Castle Richmond Annotated Anthony Trollope

Castle Richmond is set in southwestern Ireland at the beginning of the Irish famine. Castle Richmond is situated on the banks of the Blackwater River in County Cork.[3] Trollope's work in Ireland from 1841 to 1859 had given him an extensive knowledge of the island, and Richard Mullen has written that "All the principal strands of his life were formed in Ireland"