1861. Prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. FramleyParsonage is one of the volumes of his Barsetshire series which is for themost part ... » 

1861. Prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. FramleyParsonage is one of the volumes of his Barsetshire series which is for themost part set in the imaginary west country county of Barset and its chieftown Barchester. The Barset novels are where Trollope first begins to use thedevice of using reappearing characters in different books. The book beginsWhen young Mark Robarts was leaving college his father might well declare thatall men began to say all good things to him and to extol his fortune in thathe had a son blessed with so excellent a disposition. This father was aphysician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private meansbut enjoying a lucrative practice which had enabled him to maintain andeducate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country.Mark was his eldest son and second child and the first page or two of thisnarrative must be consumed in giving a catalogue of the good things whichchance and conduct together had heaped upon this young mans head. See othertitles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. «