Young clergyman Mark Robarts enjoys the comfortable living of Framley through his friendship with Lord Lufton and the patronage of Lady Lufton, but his desire to move among more fa...
The bill that Mark signed for Sowerby proves to be only the beginning of his troubles as further obligations and demands from creditors draw him ever deeper into debt, leaving him ...
Mark’s financial troubles finally become so serious that creditors come to Framley Parsonage to seize property, forcing him to endure public humiliation and acknowledge that his v...
Lady Lovel, Josephine, spends many years fighting to prove that her marriage to the late Earl Lovel was lawful and that her daughter Anna is therefore the legitimate heiress, while...
Anna travels to Yoxham and begins forming new relationships with members of the Lovel family who had long resisted accepting her, while she also grows closer to the young Earl, who...
In “Mary Gresley,” the young Mary loses her father and grows up in reduced circumstances with her widowed mother, becoming engaged at seventeen to the frail curate Arthur Donne b...
Trollope begins by explaining his long-standing ambition to visit and write about the United States and sets out for North America in 1861 despite the Civil War, traveling through ...
After examining the immense agricultural potential of the western country Trollope travels from Buffalo to New York and turns increasingly from physical travel to broader analysis ...
During the latter part of his 1861–1862 journey through the United States Trollope observes wartime Washington, the workings of Congress, and the political and social causes of th...
More than twenty years after Lady Mason won the original dispute over a codicil to her late husband’s will and secured Orley Farm for her young son Lucius, she lives quietly with ...
While Dockwrath joins forces with Joseph Mason and searches for the witnesses who signed the disputed codicil in hopes of proving that Lady Mason committed perjury during the first...
As Lady Mason’s approaching prosecution becomes a serious threat Sir Peregrine Orme’s long sympathy for her turns into love and he proposes marriage, an offer she accepts despite...
Although most people who do not know Lady Mason’s secret continue to regard her as an innocent woman being persecuted by Joseph Mason and Dockwrath, the case moves formally toward...
