Paperback. Pub Date: December 1998 Pages: 176 Publisher: Dover The first Barsetshire novels of Trollope's The Warden concerns the moral dilemma of the Reverend Septimus Harding who finds himself at the center of a bitter conflict between defenders of the Church privilege and the reforming impulses of the mid-Victorian period. Appointed warden of an almshouse. he is given a comfortable salary from its founder's will to oversee the institution and the small weekly incomes given to the men who live there. Mr. Harding & rsquo ; s disproportionate salary. however. becomes a source of concern for a local reformer who denounces the allocation of funds as a Church abuse.Interweaving the complexities of the Victorian world. the novel draws on ecclesiastical scandals. criticizes the power of the press. satirizes the law. and examines the growing influence of London on provincial life....
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Shrimpton's edition of he Warden (1855) contextualizes Trollope's critique of a newspaper called the Jupiter by exploring "thundering" Times editorials about the Crimean War. (Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement)
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This book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor.
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- PublisherDover Publications Inc.
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 048640076X
- ISBN 13 9780486400761
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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