The Warden
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The Warden
Anthony Trollope
Literature
James Mustich
Aug 1, 2018
One summer evening in the 1850s, while Anthony Trollope sauntered on the grounds of Salisbury Cathedral, the story of The Warden suggested itself to him. The title character, the Reverend Septimus Harding, is a good and gentle man who runs a hospital for pensioners in a provincial town. The institution is supported by a charitable trust that comes under the scrutiny of a young reformer, outraged by the unequal distribution of proceeds between Mr. Harding’s living and the hospital itself. The kerfuffle is complicated by the fact that Mr. Harding is both beloved by his neighbors and diligent in discharging his responsibilities, and all the more entangled because the energetic reformer is in love with the warden’s daughter. Despite the fuller pleasures of Trollope’s later books, The Warden is the place to begin one’s exploration of the large canvas on which he explores, with empathy and irony, the complex relations of people, property, and position that transcend their local settings to both delight and instruct us.
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DreesReads
Nov 4, 2018
Not the Trollope novel I would choose, but he is my favorite 19th century author.
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Debra Hanff
Nov 21, 2020
Loved rereading this book recently!
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