Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Journalist, translator, poet, reviewer, and Florentine salon hostess. Pseudonyms: T. G., Ø. Daughter of Joseph Garrow, Eurasian official of the East India Company and translator of Dante, and Theodosia Abrams, a Jewish singer. Moved to Florence with her parents in 1844, and became part of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s circle. Translated Giovanni Battista Niccolini’s drama Arnaldo da Brescia (1846), as well as Italian patriotic songs and poems. Supporter of Italian Unification, and correspondent for The Athenaeum on the Florence patriotic uprisings (journalism was collected in Social Aspects of the Italian Revolution [1861]*). Married Thomas Trollope on 3 April 1848, and began with him the newspaper The Tuscan Athenaeum (1847-1848). Their home was a centre of Anglo-Italian literary and political life in Florence. Buried in the Protestant cemetery in Florence. Biographical information: ODNB ; Alison Chapman, Networking the Nation: British and American Women’s Poetry and Italy, 1840-1870, Oxford University Press, 2015, chs. 3, 6. (AC)