Barchester Towers [SEP] series
Barchester Towers
Barchester Towers, published in 1857 by Anthony Trollope, is the second novel in his series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over", he wrote in a letter during this
"The Warden" and its sequel, "Barchester Towers", into the miniseries "The Barchester Chronicles" (1982). The first two of the seven one-hour episodes are drawn from "The Warden" and the rest from the much longer "Barchester Towers."
Criticism.
George Orwell called the novel "probably the most successful" of Trollope's "clerical series", and "one of his best works" but noted that Trollope, though a shrewd critic, was no reformer. "