When I started writing commentary on the internet, I made a promise not to publish my name. I settled on the name of a character in Trollope's novels, Adolphus ("Dolly") Longestaffe because of a general affinity and because of something he says in The Way We Live Now:
"I'm not much of a fellow, I know. I'm awfully lazy and can't get myself to go in for things as I ought to do; but I've a sort of feeling that I don't like the family property going to pieces. A fellow oughtn't to let his family property go to pieces."
In his case, the family property is physical. In mine, it's something intangible that was suddenly at risk in early 2017. Hence the name of the blog I started then, The Family Property.
