As the weeks went by for this and the later four novels ( Dr Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington, and The Last Chronicle of Barset) conversation emerged and moved back and forth on all sorts of things in and connected to the novel: character, scenes, personal impulses when we read. Most of mine were close readings of the text, but I also responded to what others wrote, and there was much discussion of church politics in the Victorian era. As in all our recent group reads each week I wrote an "facilitating essay or essays in the form of postings to Trollope-l on the chapters we had read for each week. The first two up were The Warden and Barchester Towers. We called this journey our Barsetshire Marathon because we decided to read these six books one after another with little or no break between each. In June of the year 1999 a group of us on Trollope-l decided to read all the Barsetshire novels in a row that is, chronologically. The Warden and Barchester Towers: Essays, Postings, Threads from Conversations on Trollope-l The Warden and Barchester Towers
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