Anthony Trollope, The Last Chronicle of Barset

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The fifth of Trollope’s novels to be set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire,

The Small House at Allington

, was completed in 1863. During the next three years, Trollope wrote six novels unconnected to Barsetshire and much non-fiction. This non-fiction included “sketches” describing various clerical character types, which were published in book form in 1866 as

Clergymen of the Church of England

. The tone of these sketches was generally humorous and urbane, but when Trollope came to discuss the curates laboring in country parishes, he grew more serious: “It is notorious that a rector of the Church of England, [receiving an income of,] let us say, a thousand a year, shall employ a curate at seventy pounds a year, that the curate shall do three-fourths or more of the work in the…

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Citation: Nardin, Jane. "The Last Chronicle of Barset". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 November 2005 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=395, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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