Quote of the day
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Frances Trollope

Born: March 10, 1780
Died: October 6, 1863 (aged 83)
Bio: Frances Milton Trollope was an English novelist and writer who published as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope.
Known for:
- Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832)
- The widow Barnaby (1839)
- The vicar of Wrexhill (1837)
- Jessie Phillips
- Vienna and the Austrians (1838)