Framley Parsonage

Anthony Trollope

• Publisher: Caelwick Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781571647948
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Originally a serial, it was first published as a book in 1861, and it has since been praised for its unsentimental depiction of the lives of middle-class people in the mid-Victorian era. As with the other books in the series, Framley Parsonage is set in the fictious English county of Barsetshire, and deals with the doings of a variety of families and characters who live in the region, several of whom have appeared in the previous books; but it primarily concerns the young Reverend Mark Robarts. Robarts has been appointed as vicar of the parish of Framley through the patronage of Lady Lufton of Framley Court, the mother of his long-time friend Ludovic, now Lord Lufton. After he and his wife Fanny take up residence in Framley Parsonage, Robarts is led into the society of some loose-living aristocrats through his friendship with Ludovic. Robarts eventually finds himself weakly consenting to his name being included on a bill for a loan to one of his new connections, Sowerby. By so doing, he becomes liable for debts he cannot possibly satisfy. An important secondary thread involves Mark Robarts' sister Lucy, who after their father's death comes to live with her brother's family at the parsonage. Through them, she becomes acquainted with Lady Lufton and her son Ludovic, and romantic complications ensue. Framley Parsonage was originally published anonymously in serial form in Cornhill Magazine , and such was its popularity that during its publication a hysterical young woman apparently tried to gain notoriety in her country town by claiming to be its author. "The real writer," we are told, "dealt very gently with the pretender."

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• “Omnes Omnia Bona Dicere”
• The Framley Set, and the Chaldicotes Set
• Chaldicotes
• A Matter of Conscience
• Amantium Iræ Amoris Integratio
• Mr. Harold Smith’s Lecture
• Sunday Morning
• Gatherum Castle
• The Vicar’s Return
• Lucy Robarts
• Griselda Grantly
• The Little Bill
• Delicate Hints
• Mr. Crawley of Hogglestock
• Lady Lufton’s Ambassador
• Mrs. Podgens’ Baby
• Mrs. Proudie’s Conversazione
• The New Minister’s Patronage
• Money Dealings
• Harold Smith in the Cabinet
• Why Puck, the Pony, Was Beaten
• Hogglestock Parsonage
• The Triumph of the Giants
• Magna Est Veritas
• Non-Impulsive
• Impulsive
• South Audley Street
• Dr. Thorne
• Miss Dunstable at Home
• The Grantly Triumph
• Salmon Fishing in Norway
• The Goat and Compasses
• Consolation
• Lady Lufton Is Taken by Surprise
• The Story of King Cophetua
• Kidnapping at Hogglestock
• Mr. Sowerby without Company
• Is There Cause or Just Impediment?
• How to Write a Love Letter
• Internecine
• Don Quixote
• Touching Pitch
• Is She Not Insignificant?
• The Philistines at the Parsonage
• Palace Blessings
• Lady Lufton’s Request
• Nemesis
• How They Were All Married, Had Two Children and Lived Happy Ever After