Trollope was born into a professional upper-class family in London in 1815, the year that French ruler Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo. Jane Austen published her famous novel Emma in the same year.

• 1815年，法皇拿破仑败于滑铁卢之役那一年，也是简·奥斯丁的著名小说《爱玛》发表那一年，特罗洛普出生于伦敦一个自由职业者的上层社会家庭。