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)