Framley Parsonage (83 page)

8
(
p. 282
).
objection to a bishopric
: See Chapter 4, note 2.

1
(
p. 287
).
Magna est Veritas: Apocrypha
, 3 Esdras iv, 41, ‘Great is truth’.

2
(
p. 294
).
Harold
: MS and
Cornhill
read ‘Horace’.

3
(
p. 295
)’
Like
the eels
: ‘Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flayed’, Byron,
Don Juan
, V, vii.

1
(
p. 303
)
army of martyrs
: Te Deum,
Book of Common Prayer
.

2
(
p. 303
).
shaking some dust from his shoes
: Matthew x, 14: ‘And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words, when you depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet’.

3
(
p. 304
).
Revalenta Arabica
: An invalid’s
food prepared from lentil and barley flour.

1
(
p. 313
).
Dr Stanhope, the late prebendary
: At the opening of Chapter 18 the prebendary is named as ‘Burslem’. Trollope has either forgotten, or seen the advantage of referring to Dr Vesey Stanhope, the late incumbent of Eiderdown, who in the first three of the
Chronicles of Barset-shire
has been a scandalous example of absenteeism and
neglect of clerical duties, and who in Chapter 19
of Doctor Thorne
is reported to have ‘died of apoplexy at his villa in Italy’. With
Pramley Parsonage
Trollope has for once in his career begun publication before finishing a novel, and so cannot return to clear up inconsistencies.

2
(
p. 313
).
out of the full head the mouth speaks
: ‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh’ – Matthew
xii, 34.

3
(
p. 313
).
tike Patience on a monument: Twelfth Night
, II, iv, 113.

4
(
p. 318
).
You know what these homes are
?: There were current public fears of Roman Catholic tendencies in Anglican sisterhoods.

1
(
p. 328
).
the castle of Udolpho
: In Ann Radcliffe’s ‘gothic’ novel,
The Mysteries of Udolpho
(1794).

2
(
p. 330
).
either money or marbles
: Money or personal effects (from the
French ‘meubles’).

1
(
p. 337
).
An orthodox martyr… from the East
: Probably Bryan King from the London church of St-George’s-in-the-East where police had regularly to be stationed on Sunday in 1859–60 because of riots caused by King’s insistence on vestments and ritual.

2
(
p. 337
).
an oily latter-day St Paul from the other side of the water
. Possibly Cardinal Wiseman, a persuasive
speaker and an accomplished member of London society, who as Catholic Archbishop of Westminster had been sent ‘from the other side of the water’ during the ‘Papal Aggression’ of 1850, and who, like St Paul, was proud to be a ‘Roman’. He may be the same as the ‘Spermoil’ mentioned later, whose name is suggestive of lamps and candles.

3
(
p. 337
).
surpassing that of women
: Cf. 2 Samuel i, 26.

4
(
p. 338
).
sinful lusts of the flesh
: The Catechism: ‘the vain pomp and glory of the world… and the carnal desires of the flesh’.

1
(p3 60). . 3 60).
sans reproche… sans peur
: ‘sans peur et sans reproche’ (’without fear and without reproach’), said of the Chevalier Bayard (d. 1524).

2
(
p. 360
).
Angels and ministers of grace assist me!
: Misquotation of
Hamlet
, IV, ill, 39.

3
(
p. 362
).
vanity
and vexation of spirit
: Ecclesiastes i, 14.

1
(
p. 382
).
goat’s milk
: In Chapter 21 Lucy has in fact said she would need ass’s milk.

1
(
p. 386
).
West Barset
: MS and
Comhill
read ‘East Barset’ here and a few lines later.

1
(
p. 395
).
one hundred and thirty pounds
: Throughout the manuscript Trollope priced the horse at £150. The
Cornhill
consistently records the
price as £130 (cf. Chapters 14, 19 and 21) – with the exception of two mentions in the present chapter where £150 is given as the sum. Clearly Trollope had been engaged in altering the price of the horse in the proofs
(perhaps to echo Crawley’s annual income), but failed to achieve consistency in this chapter. 2397). (p. 397).
filed his mind
: From
Macbeth
, III, i, 64.

2
(
p.397
).
filed his mind
: From
macbeth
,III,i,64.

1
(
p. 411
).
King Cophetua
: An imaginary African king who disdained all women until he met and married a beggar-maid.

2
(
p. 413
).
Griselda
: The model of patience, from a tale in Boccaccio’s
Decameron
, which also forms ‘The Clerk’s Tale’ in Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales
.

1
(
p. 423
).
due ad me
: ‘lead to me’ or ‘come hither’.

2
(
P.431
).
the labourer worthy
of his hire
…
scraps from a rich man’s kitchen
: Crawley echoes Luke x, 7 and Luke xvi, 21.

1
(
p. 434
).
Adding sugar…as he goes?;
Unidentified.

2
(
p. 439
).
antecedentum scelestum
: The rascal who runs ahead, and of whom Punishment, though lame-footed, seldom ceases the pursuit – Horace,
Odes
III, ii, 31–2.

1
(
p. 442
).
Cause or Just Impediment
: The Banns of Marriage,
Book
of Common Prayer
.

2
(
p. 443
).
Marquis of Hartletop
: MS and
Cornhill
read ‘Marquis of Dum-bello’.

1
(
p. 471
).
precentor to the chapter
: The precentor is usually second-in-command to the dean, but in Barchester the term is used in an old sense of the cleric who chants the litany.

2
(
p. 475
).
Homburg and Ems
: Continental gambling resorts.

1
(
p. 500
).
Framley
: MS and
Cornhill
read ‘Lufton’, which is clearly
a mistake since Lufton is ‘in another county’ and has not been inhabited since Lord Lufton’s grandfather’s day.

1
(
p. 513
).
Jones
: MS and
Cornhill
read ‘Evans’, and Trollope has clearly forgotten that the curate’s name is Evan Jones.

2
(
P. 519
).
locus penitentiae
: ‘A place or opportunity of repentance. The interval between the time money is paid or
goods are delivered for an illegal purpose and the time the illegal purpose is carried out’
(Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary
, 6th edn, 1976),

1
(
p. 544
).
Faith and hope… charity… all
: Allusion to 1 Corinthians xiii, 13.

1
(
p. 545
). a
lame foot of her own
: See Chapter 3 7, note 2.

2
(
p. 547
).
Quod facit per alium, facit per se
: Correctly,
’Qui
facit…’: ‘He who does a thing
by another’s agency does it himself’ – (Coke,
Institutes of the Laws)
.

3
(
p. 552
).
West Barsetshire
: MS and
Cornhill
read ‘West Barchester’.

1
(
p. 554
).
vale of tears… taketh away
: Mrs Proudie quotes from the Salve Regina, the Exhortation and the funeral service.

2
(
p. 556
).
Ems… Baden… Nice
: Continental gambling resorts.

3
(
p. 556
).
to forget the peeress in the woman
: ‘Fond to
forget the statesman in the friend’ – Pope, ‘Epistle to Rt Hon Earl of Oxford’, 8.

4
(
p. 557
). feast
of reason… flow of soul
: Pope,
Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated
, Book 2, Satire 1, 127.

5
(
p. 557
).
quaint latter-day philosopher
…
Silence
: The sentiment is found frequently in the works of Carlyle, author of the
Latter-Bay Pamphlets
.

Most books on Trollope’s fiction contain a treatment of
Framley Parsonage
. Particularly helpful are the following: James R. Kincaid,
The Novels of Anthony Troilope
(Oxford, 1977); Mary Hamer,
Writing by Numbers: Trollope’s Serial Fiction
(Cambridge, 1987); and Mark Turner,
Troilope and the Magazine: Gendered Issues in Mid-Victorian Britain
(Basingstoke, 2000),

Examples of other
general works on Troilope, many of them now rather dated, are Bradford A. Booth,
Anthony Trollope: Aspects of His Life and Art
(London, 1958); A. O. J. Cockshut,
Anthony Trollope
(London, 1955); P. D. Edwards,
Anthony Trollope: His Art and Scope
(St Lucia, Queensland, 1977); Geoffrey Harvey,
The Art of Anthony Trollope
(London, 1980); Robert M. Polhemus,
The Changing World of Anthony Troilope
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1968); Arthur Pollard,
Anthony Troilope
(London, 1978); Michael Sadleir,
Troilope: A Commentary
(London, 1927); L P. and R. P. Stebbins,
The Trollopes: The Chronicle of a Writing Family
(London, 1946); R. C. Terry,
Anthony Trollope: The Artist in Hiding
(London, 1977); Robert Tracy,
Trollope’s Later Novels
(Berkeley, Ca., 1978); and Stephen Wall,
Troilope and Character
(London, 1988).

Despite a number of serious bibliographical errors, Donald Smalley (ed.),
Anthony Troilope: The Critical Heritage
(London, 1969) contains a useful collection of Victorian criticism of Trollope’s fiction. Trollope’s contemporary reception is analysed in David Skilton,
Anthony Troilope and His Contemporaries: A Study in the Theory and Conventions of Mid-Victorian Fiction
(London,
1972, 1996). An annotated bibliography of later criticism is found in J. C. Olmsted and J. E. Welch,
The Reputation of Troilope: An Annotated Bibliography
1925–1975 (New York, 1978), and a fuller listing of Troilope editions as well as selected secondary works is found in
Anthony Troilope: A Collector’s Catalogue
1847–1990 (London: the Troilope Society, 1992). The standard descriptive bibliography
of Trollope’s works in their original
editions is Michael Sadleir,
Trollope: A Bibliography
(London, 1928).

The best reference work on Trollope, his life and work is the
Oxford Reader’s Companion to Trollope
, edited by R. C. Terry (Oxford, 1999), while the most scholarly biographies are N. John Hall,
Trollope: A Biography
(Oxford, 1991) and R. H. Super,
The Chronicler of Barsetshire: A Life of
Anthony Trollope
(Ann Arbor, Mich., 1988). Richard Mullen,
Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in His World
(London, 1990) gives a more opinionated account, and Victoria Glendinning’s
Anthony Trollope
(London, 1992) is fascinating and exceptionally readable, containing very plausible speculations about unknown aspects of the author’s life, including his marriage. Trollope’s letters are admirably collected
in N. John Hall (ed.),
The Letters of Anthony Trollope
(Stanford, Ca., 1983). Also useful in the study of Trollope as a public and private figure is R. C. Terry (ed.),
Trollope: Interviews and Recollections
(London, 1987).

1815
Battle of Waterloo

Lord George Gordon Byron,
Hebrew Melodies

Anthony Trollope born 24 April at 16 Keppel Street, Blooms-bury, the fourth son of Thomas and Frances Trollope. Family moves shortly after to Harrow-on-the-Hill

1823
Attends Harrow as a day-boy (–1825)

1825
First public steam railway opened

Sir Walter Scott,
The Betrothed
and
The Talisman

Sent as a boarder to a
private school in Sunbury, Middlesex

1827
Greek War of Independence won in the battle of Navarino

Sent to school at Winchester College. His mother sets sail for the USA on 4 November with three of her children

1830
George IV dies; his brother ascends the throne as William IV

William Cobbett,
Rural Rides

Removed from Winchester. Sent again to Harrow until 1834

1832
Controversial First Reform
Act extends the right to vote to approximately one man in five

Frances Trollope,
Domestic Manners of the Americans

1834
Slavery abolished in the British Empire. Poor Law Act introduces workhouses to England

Edward Bulwer-Lytton,
The Last Days of Pompeii

Trollope family migrates to Bruges to escape creditors. Anthony returns to London to take up a junior clerkship in the General Post Office