Somewhere sometime I picked up a copy of "The Warden", and finally got
around to reading it a couple of years ago. That's my only dollop of
Trollope. A lot of my reading works that way.
Crystal quotes a passage from his autobiography in which he ponders the
dilemma of wanting to write in a popular, natural sort of English while
still obeying the rules of grammar. He concludes that (if I may
paraphrase) you have to practise long and hard in order to be natural.
The autobiography is available online:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5978
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