' The Warden is essential to every lover of Trollope because it is in these pages that he meets for the first time two of the great figures in English fiction, Mr. Cuthbert’s, a small parish in the Cathedral Close. Nevertheless the Warden resigned, and after Eleanor and John Bold were married left his post and became Rector of St. Anthony Trollopes comic novel, first published in 1855, tells the story of Septimus Harding, a clergyman from Barchester, a fictional cathedral city in the. 3 Location work was videotaped in and around Peterborough Cathedral, using locations such as the Deanery and Laurel Court. 2 The series was directed by David Giles. Harding, who is nearing sixty when the novel opens, lives comfortably as the Warden of Hiram's Hospital, a sort of old folks' home which houses twelve men. Harding’s son-in-law Archdeacon Grantly, enraged at this assault on clerical prerogatives, fought the case bitterly until Bold, distressed by the uproar he had occasioned, withdrew his suit. It is an adaptation by Alan Plater of Anthony Trollope s first two Chronicles of Barsetshire, The Warden (1855) and Barchester Towers (1857). Anthony Trollope's comic novel, first published in 1855, tells the story of Septimus Harding, a clergyman from Barchester, a fictional cathedral city in the west of England. John Bold, a young surgeon of Barchester, although in love with Eleanor, became convinced that the financial affairs of the Foundation were mismanaged and demanded a public accounting. Septimus Harding a gentle, ‘cello-playing old clergyman, lived near the Hospital, with his younger daughter, Eleanor. Through the centuries the income of the foundation had greatly increased, and the Wardenship was a handsome sinecure for the Precentor of the Cathedral. The Warden by Anthony Trollope on Apple Podcasts 21 episodes Published in 1855, The Warden is the first installment in Trollope’s highly acclaimed series Chronicles of Barsetshire, and offers an enlightening insight into the life of the Victorian clergy, its gentry, politics, and social settings. Hiram’s Hospital, a fifteenth century foundation attached to Barchester Cathedral, provided a home for twelve old men.

The warden by anthony trollope