Trollope Past Readings

2025

    • The Vicar of Bullhampton
    • Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton
    • John Caldigate (extra credit: John Hughes, Fatal Shore)
    • Marion Fay
    • Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

2024

    • The Small House at Allington, Chapter 31 to end
    • The Egoist by George Meredith
    • The Last Chronicle of Barset, with Professor Buzard
    • He Knew He Was Right
    • Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite
    • Ralph the Heir

2023–2024

    • The Warden

    • Barchester Towers

    • Doctor Thorne

    • Framley Parsonage

2022–2023

    • Lady Anna

    • He Knew He Was Right

    • The Golden Lion of Granpere

    • Dr. Wortle’s School

    • Wilkie Collins, Armadale

2021–2022

    • The Way We Live Now

    • The Prime Minister

    • The Duke’s Children

    • Orley Farm

    • William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon

    • Three Clerks

    • Framley Parsonage

    • Trollope’s life; read one or more of the following three titles and we will discuss Trollope’s life and the different presentations of Trollope: Autobiography; Trollope, by

    • CP Snow; and Anthony Trollope, by Victoria Glendinnning.

    • Ayala’s Angel

    • Brown, Smith and Robinson

    • The Claverlings

2020–2021

    • The Eustace Diamond

    • Phineas Redux

    • Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwait

    • Wilkie Collins, No Name

    • George Eliot, Felix Holt

    • Mr. Scarborough’s Family

    • Ralph the Heir

    • The American Senator

    • Castle Richmond

    • The Landleaguers

2019–2020

    • The Last Chronicle of Barset

    • Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoriebanks

    • An Eye for an Eye

    • Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

    • Castle Richmond

    • Can You Forgive Her

    • Phineas Finn

    • The Belton Estate

2018–2019

    • Harry Heathcote of Ganguli

    • Ralph the Heir

    • Dr. Thorne

    • Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

    • Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret

    • Framley Parsonage

    • He Knew He Was Right

    • The Macdermots of Ballycloran

    • The Kellys and the O’Kelleys

2017–2018

    • Kept in the Dark

    • The Fixed Period

    • Linda Tressel

    • George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

    • The Vicar of Bullhampton

    • The Warden 

    • Barchester Tower 

    • Marion Fay

2016–2017

    • Miss Mackenzie

    • Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton

    • Rachel Ray

    • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

    • Is He Popenjoy 

    • Dr Wortle’s School

    • The Bertrams

    • An Old Man’s Love

    • Alaya’s Angel

2015–2016

    • Phineas Redux

    • John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman 

    • Three Clerks

    • Marion Fay

    • The Way We Live Now

    • The Prime Minister

    • The Duke’s Children

    • Nina Balatka

    • John Caldigate

    • Lady Anna

2014–2015

    • The Claverlings

    • The American Senator

    • George Eliot, Middlemarch

    • Can You Forgive Her

    • Phineas Finn

    • The Eustace Diamonds