Top ten vicious literary hatchet jobs

In February 2013 Rupert Hawksley tagged his top ten vicious literary hatchet jobs for the Telegraph. One entry on the list:Henry James on Anthony Trollope (1866)

Well before Henry James went on to become the celebrated author of The Portrait of a Lady, he was dismissing some of the great novelists. Even Dickens did not escape James’s sharpened quill, but it is his treatment of Anthony Trollope