Framley

In Framley Parsonage, I liked Fanny and Lucy and the little Crawley girl, and the others were all less interesting to me.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009

Regarding Iceland and also Framley Parsonage, I think it's a very good thing that I had already run into the idea that authors I like don't always like the same things I do.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway 2009

I don't recommend Tooth and Claw because it is or is not like Framley Parsonage.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009

In the previous bit of discussion on this lj about Framley Parsonage, papersky wondered aloud, "Why did I change that [detailed references to debt] when I wrote T&C?", and it's an interesting question.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009

I didn't intend a direct comparison, but I have to say I like Tooth and Claw better than Framley Parsonage, and I don't think it's because Anthony Trollope has never once made me dinner.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009

Framley Parsonage is the fourth of Trollope's six Barsetshire novels, mainly concerning the initial hostility and eventual approval of Lord Lufton's mother towards her son's love for the more humbly born Lucy Robarts; a substantial subplot concerns the financial problems of Lucy's brother Mark, who is the vicar of Framley and whose home therefore gives the book its title.

January Books 1) Framley Parsonage, by Anthony Trollope bopeepsheep 2010

And farther south again, I'm also reading Trollope's Framley Parsonage, where there is a villainous Sowerby who I hope will come to a sticky end.

Linkspam for 15-12-2009 uitlander 2009

I'm in the middle of Framley Parsonage at the moment.

Gibbon Chapter XIV nwhyte 2009

Might Framley Parsonage and Barchester Towers be more interesting places all round if they were thronging with werewolves, werebears and were-whatevers?

This steampunk take on The Three Musketeers doesn't buckle my swash 2011

I had never read Framley Parsonage, from which a lot of the inspiration for Tooth and Claw was drawn.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway papersky 2009