Of the intense desire which Mr. Harding felt to be assured on fit authority that he was wronging no man, that he was entitled in true equity to his income, that he might sleep at night without pangs of conscience, that he was no robber, no spoiler of the poor; that he and all the world might be openly convinced that he was not the man which The Jupiter had described him to be; of such longings on the part of Mr. Harding, Sir Abraham was entirely ignorant; nor, indeed, could it be looked on as part of his business to gratify such desires. Party leaders apparently took advantage of Trollope's eagerness to stand, and of his willingness to spend money on a campaign. [43] Beverley had a long history of vote-buying and of intimidation by employers and others. Every election since 1857 had been followed by an election petition alleging corruption, and it was estimated that 300 of the 1,100 voters in 1868 would sell their votes. [46] The task of a Liberal candidate was not to win the election, but to give the Conservative candidates an opportunity to display overt corruption, which could then be used to disqualify them. [44] Despite a series not initially being intended, [3] few have argued against the importance of appreciating each novel as part of the Chronicles of Barsetshire. As R. C. Terry writes, "the ironies embedded in the novel achieve their full effect only when one considers the entire Barsetshire series". [26] Mary Poovey suggests that even before they were formally published as a series, reviewers understood their collective value. As The Examiner (1867) wrote, "the public should have these Barsetshire novels extant, not only as detached works, but duly bound, lettered, and bought as a connected series". [3] a b Wright, Andrew (1983). Anthony Trollope: Dream and Art. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-1-349-06626-1.

Search Results for England & Wales Deaths 1837-2007". www.findmypast.co.uk . Retrieved 21 July 2021.He was bright as a diamond, and as cutting, and also as unimpressionable. He knew everyone whom to know was an honor, but he was without a friend; he wanted none, however, and knew not the meaning of the word in other than its parliamentary sense. A friend! Had he not always been sufficient to himself, and now, at fifty, was it likely that he should trust another? He was married, indeed, and had children, but what time had he for the soft idleness of conjugal felicity? His working days or term times were occupied from his time of rising to the late hour at which he went to rest, and even his vacations were more full of labor than the busiest days of other men. He never quarreled with his wife, but he never talked to her — he never had time to talk, he was so taken up with speaking. She, poor lady, was not unhappy; she had all that money could give her, she would probably live to be a peeress, and she really thought Sir Abraham the best of husbands. There is, however, one character and one English institution that The Warden’s narrator does not handle gently: Tom Towers, the anonymous editorial writer for the famous newspaper The Jupiter, Trollope’s alias for the widely-read actual newspaper The Times. Tom Towers is the man John Bold approaches to champion his ideas for reforming the stipend for Hiram’s Hospital’s warden.

Another early sequel was Barchester Pilgrimage, by the renowned priest, novelist and theologian Ronald Knox, following the children and grandchildren of Trollope's characters. Trollope's literary reputation dipped during the last years of his life, [4] but he regained somewhat of a following by the mid-20th century. It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ... made miserable and unsound' Knowles, Elisabeth (2006). The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Barsetshire). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191727047. Booth, Bradford Allen (1958). Anthony Trollope: Aspects of his Life and Art. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313202032. OCLC 499213856.

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It is probable that Tom Towers considered himself the most powerful man in Europe; and so he walked on from day to day, studiously striving to look a man, but knowing within his breast that he was a god.

Chapter 16. Rev Harding also goes to London – to see Haphazard and escape from the archdeacon. When he is kept waiting for an appointment he hides in Westminster Abbey, wrestling with his conscience. He then passes time in a supper-house and a coffee shop. Trollope, Anthony (2014) [1860]. Mullin, Katherine; O'Gorman, Francis (eds.). Framely Parsonage. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199663156. a b c d e f g h i j Smalley, Donald (2007). Anthony Trollope: The Critical Heritage. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-13455-2.

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a b c Terry, R. C. (1977). The Artist in Hiding. London: Macmillan Press. doi: 10.1007/978-1-349-03382-9. ISBN 978-1-349-03382-9.

One day, Barchester Cathedral appoints Harding as the new precentor. Alongside looking after Barchester Cathedral, Harding must also serve as warden to Hiram’s Hospital. Harding gets money based on how much Hiram’s is worth, and its value increases each year. It’s not long before Harding earns an impressive income, most of which he spends on Eleanor and the elderly men under his wardship. Peter Catterall, " The Prime Minister and His Trollope: Reading Harold Macmillan's Reading", Cercles: Occasional Papers Series (2004). William Coyle, "The Friendship of Anthony Trollope and Richard Henry Dana, Jr.," The New England Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 2 (June 1952), pp. 255-262 (quotation on p. 255). It was adapted as a BBC television mini-series titled The Warden (1951), which was broadcast live and apparently never recorded. [6]

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Yet, finally, to Haphazard’s astonishment, Mr. Harding turns the tables on the lawyer-politician and triumphs by exerting his strength of conscience. He silences the great man as if he’d hit him. He asserts himself — and his moral authority.