Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist who wrote forty-seven novels while working full time for the Post Office, where he introduced the pillar box to Britain. He rose before dawn to write a fixed number of words a day, a method his posthumous autobiography described so frankly that it damaged his reputation for a generation. The Barsetshire novels, beginning with The Warden, follow the clergy and gentry of an invented cathedral county.