

In a sense, in The Last Chronicle of Barset anyway, this hardly matters. I have never, ’ Trollope continued robustly, ‘been capable of constructing with complete success the intricacies of a plot which required to be unravelled.’ ‘I regard this as the best novel I have written,’ he confessed in his posthumously published Autobiography, although he had some dissatisfaction with the plot, ‘which consisted in the loss of a cheque, of a charge made against a clergyman for stealing it, and of absolute uncertainty on the part of the clergyman himself as to the manner in which the cheque found its way into his hands. It is not only the last of Anthony Trollope’s great clerical series set in his imaginary county of Barsetshire, but also the best.

The Last Chronicle of Barset was published in weekly parts, priced at sixpence each, between December 1866 and July 1867. Miss Demolines desires to become a finger-post Mr Crawley’s last appearance in his own pulpitĨ0. Why don’t you have an ‘It’ for yourself?Ħ9. Lily Dale writes two words in her bookĥ2. Showing how Major Grantly returned to Guestwickģ5. Showing what Major Grantly did after his walkģ1.
