... narrative authority central to The Macdermots.³⁰ As in the fiction I have already examined, the colonial Trollope’s Ireland administrator here, too, promotes the need for rehabilitating English authority ... (‘‘Letters’’ ) to colonial authority, and instead defends official practices and policies From the administrative point of view Trollope adopts in these letters, establishing colonial authority as above ... ‘‘a well-grounded hope’’ () – grounded, that is, on Trollope’s first-hand knowledge and disinterested vision, his grasp of facts which he presents as simply incontestable by any right-minded...