Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

Framley Parsonage is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope. It was first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860, then in book form in April 1861. It is the fourth book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, preceded by Doctor Thorne and followed by The Small House at Allington.

The hero of Framley Parsonage, Mark Robarts, is a young vicar, settled in the village of Framley in Barsetshire with his wife and children. The living has come into his hands through Lady Lufton, the mother of his childhood friend Ludovic, Lord Lufton. Mark has ambitions to further his career and begins to seek connections in the county's high society. He is soon preyed upon by local Whig Member of Parliament Mr Sowerby to guarantee a substantial loan, which Mark in a moment of weakness agrees to do, even though he does not have the means and knows Sowerby to be a notorious debtor. The consequences of this blunder play a major role in the plot, with Mark eventually being publicly humiliated when bailiffs arrive and begin to take an inventory of the Robarts' furniture. At the last moment, Lord Lufton forces a loan on the reluctant Mark.

Another plot line deals with the romance between Mark's sister Lucy and Lord Lufton. The couple are deeply in love and the young man proposes, but Lady Lufton is against the marriage. She would prefer that her son instead choose the coldly beautiful Griselda Grantly, daughter of Archdeacon Grantly, and fears that Lucy is too "insignificant" for such a high position. Lucy herself recognises the great gulf between their social positions and declines the proposal. When Lord Lufton persists, she agrees only on condition that Lady Lufton ask her to accept her son. Lucy's conduct and charity (especially towards the family of poor priest Josiah Crawley) weaken her ladyship's resolve. In addition, Griselda becomes engaged to Lord Dumbello. But it is the determination of Lord Lufton that in the end vanquishes his doting mother.

The book ends with Lucy and Ludovic's marriage as well as three other marriages. Two of these involve the daughters of Bishop Proudie and Archdeacon Grantly. The rivalry between Mrs Proudie and Mrs Grantly over their matrimonial ambitions forms a significant comic subplot, with the latter triumphant. The other marriage is that of the outspoken heiress, Martha Dunstable, to Doctor Thorne, the eponymous hero of the preceding novel in the series. (Wikipedia.org)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798889422068
Publisher:	Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Publication date:	04/19/2023
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815- 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

Katherine Mullin is the editor, with Francis O'Gorman, of Trollope's The Duke's Children (OUP, 2011). She is the author of James Joyce, Sexuality and Social Purity (CUP, 2003), and has published articles on late-Victorian and Modernist fiction. Her most recent book is Working Girls: Fiction, Sexuality and the Modern (forthcoming 2014).

Francis O'Gorman has edited Trollope's The Duke's Children (with Katherine Mullin), Ruskin's Praeterita, and Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers for Oxford World's Classics. He has written widely on English literature, chiefly from 1780 to the present, and is currently editing Swinburne for OUP.

Table of Contents

	Introduction to the Modern Edition	9
I	'Omnes Omnia Bona Dicere'	13
II	The Framley Set, and the Chaldicotes Set	23
III	Chaldicotes	35
IV	A Matter of Conscience	49
V	Amantium Irae Amoris Integratio	59
VI	Mr Harold Smith's Lecture	74
VII	Sunday Morning	85
VIII	Gatherum Castle	94
IX	The Vicar's Return	112
X	Lucy Robarts	122
XI	Griselda Grantly	134
XII	The Little Bill	149
XIII	Delicate Hints	158
XIV	Mr Crawley of Hogglestock	170
XV	Lady Lufton's Ambassador	182
XVI	Mrs Podgens' Baby	192
XVII	Mrs Proudie's Conversazione	205
XVIII	The New Minister's Patronage	217
XIX	Money Dealings	227
XX	Harold Smith in Cabinet	241
XXI	Why Puck, the Pony, was beaten	251
XXII	Hogglestock Parsonage	261
XXIII	The Triumph of the Giants	269
XXIV	Magna est Veritas	282
XXV	Non-impulsive	296
XXVI	Impulsive	307
XXVII	South Audley Street	321
XXVIII	Dr Thorne	331
XXIX	Miss Dunstable at Home	340
XXX	The Grantly Triumph	360
XXXI	Salmon Fishing in Norway	366
XXXII	The Goat and Compasses	383
XXXIII	Consolation	392
XXXIV	Lady Lufton is taken by Surprise	401
XXXV	The Story of King Cophetua	412
XXXVI	Kidnapping at Hogglestock	424
XXXVII	Mr Sowerby without Company	436
XXXVIII	Is there Cause or Just Impediment?	446
XXXIX	How to write a Love Letter	458
XL	Internecine	470
XLI	Don Quixote	482
XLII	Touching Pitch	494
XLIII	Is she not Insignificant?	506
XLIV	The Philistines at the Parsonage	518
XLV	Palace Blessings	530
XLVI	Lady Lufton's Request	540
XLVII	Nemesis	554
XLVIII	How they were all Married, had Two Children, and lived Happily ever after	564