The Vicar of Bullhampton
A Victorian Parish Novel of Religious Duty, Social Stigma, and Compassion in Provincial EnglandBy Anthony Trollope
Length20h 17m
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Anthony Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton (1870) is a searching social novel about conscience, reputation, sexual morality, and the uneasy obligations of Christian charity. Its central conflict concerns the Reverend Frank Fenwick, an independent-minded Anglican clergyman whose sympathy for the disgraced Carry Brattle brings him into opposition with parish opinion, ecclesiastical authority, and the rigid codes of respectable society. Trollope combines intricate plotting, romance, political and clerical debate, and sharply observed domestic comedy in a realist style distinguished by psychological tact and an ironic, conversational narrator. Though less institutionally expansive than the Barsetshire novels, the book belongs to the same Victorian tradition of examining how public morality is shaped by class, gender, and religious power. A former postal administrator who became one of the nineteenth century's most prolific novelists, Trollope drew extensively upon his experience of bureaucratic systems, provincial communities, and Anglican social life. His fiction repeatedly tests the distance between official principle and humane conduct, and The Vicar of Bullhampton reflects his mature interest in the moral dilemmas produced by social judgment. His understanding of Victorian respectability, as well as his sympathy for individuals constrained by convention, gives the novel both institutional breadth and emotional precision. This book is especially rewarding for readers interested in Victorian realism, church politics, and the ethics of forgiveness. It offers Trollope's characteristic pleasures—witty narration, memorable social observation, and compellingly sustained relationships—while confronting questions of exclusion and compassion that remain remarkably relevant.
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GenreLiterary Classics, General Fiction
Length20 hrs 17 mins
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Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1William—An Englishman (Annotated)
26"I NEVER SHAMED NONE OF THEM."
2SAM BRATTLE.
27MRS. BRATTLE'S JOURNEY.
3THERE IS NO ONE ELSE.
28THE BULL AT LORING.
4THE MILLER.
29THE AUNT AND THE UNCLE.
5BRATTLE'S MILL.
30MARY LOWTHER FEELS HER WAY.
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6THE MILLER'S WIFE.
31MR. GILMORE'S SUCCESS.
7THE LAST DAY.
32FAREWELL.
8MISS MARRABLE.
33BULLHAMPTON NEWS.
9CRUNCH'EM CAN'T BE HAD.
34MR. PUDDLEHAM'S NEW CHAPEL.
10DON'T YOU BE AFEARD ABOUT ME.
35SAM BRATTLE GOES OFF AGAIN.
11BONE'M AND HIS MASTER.
36FEMALE MARTYRDOM.
12CAPTAIN MARRABLE AND HIS FATHER.
37A LOVER'S MADNESS.
13COUSINHOOD.
38THE THREE HONEST MEN.
14THE POLICE AT FAULT.
39TROTTER'S BUILDINGS.
15MISS LOWTHER ASKS FOR ADVICE.
40STARTUP FARM.
16THE MARQUIS OF TROWBRIDGE.
41MR. QUICKENHAM, Q.C.
17BLANK PAPER.
42EASTER AT TURNOVER CASTLE.
18SAM BRATTLE RETURNS HOME.
43THE MARRABLES OF DUNRIPPLE.
19I HAVE A JUPITER OF MY OWN NOW.
44WHAT SHALL I DO WITH MYSELF?
20WHAT PARSON JOHN THINKS ABOUT IT.
45MR. JAY OF WARMINSTER.
21WHAT THE FENWICKS THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
46SAM BRATTLE IS WANTED.
22WHAT MR. GILMORE THOUGHT ABOUT IT.
47MARY LOWTHER RETURNS TO BULLHAMPTON.
23THE REV. HENRY FITZACKERLEY CHAMBERLAINE.
48MARY LOWTHER'S DOOM.
24CARRY BRATTLE.
49MARY LOWTHER INSPECTS HER FUTURE HOME.
25THE TURNOVER CORRESPONDENCE.
50THE GRINDER AND HIS COMRADE.
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