Framley Parsonage

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

Anthony Trollope, (born April 24, 1815, London, Eng.—died Dec. 6, 1882, London), English novelist whose popular success concealed until long after his death the nature and extent of his literary merit. A series of books set in the imaginary English county of Barsetshire remains his best loved and most famous work, but he also wrote convincing novels of political life as well as studies that show great psychological penetration. One of his greatest strengths was a steady, consistent vision of the social structures of Victorian England, which he re-created in his books with unusual solidity.

Trollope grew up as the son of a sometime scholar, barrister, and failed gentleman farmer. He was unhappy at the great public schools of Winchester and Harrow. Adolescent awkwardness continued until well into his 20s. The years 1834–41 he spent miserably as a junior clerk in the General Post Office, but he was then transferred as a postal surveyor to Ireland, where he began to enjoy a social life. In 1844 he married Rose Heseltine, an Englishwoman, and set up house at Clonmel, in Tipperary. He then embarked upon a literary career that leaves a dominant impression of immense energy and versatility.

The Warden (1855) was his first novel of distinction, a penetrating study of the warden of an old people’s home who is attacked for making too much profit from a charitable sinecure. During the next 12 years Trollope produced five other books set, like The Warden, in Barsetshire: Barchester Towers (1857), Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (serially 1866–67; 1867). Barchester Towers is the funniest of the series; Doctor Thorne perhaps the best picture of a social system based on birth and the ownership of land; and The Last Chronicle, with its story of the sufferings of the scholarly Mr. Crawley, an underpaid curate of a poor parish, the most pathetic.

The Barsetshire novels excel in memorable characters, and they exude the atmosphere of the cathedral community and of the landed aristocracy. (britannica.com)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781618955913
Publisher:	Bibliotech Press
Publication date:	07/13/2019
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(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