



–-–, ed., introd, notes Sophie Gilmartin. The Last Chronicle of Barset, ed., introd, notes. His indirect descendent, Joanna Trollope, has recreated the central story or pair of characters, the Rev Josiah and Mary Crawley of the Last Chronicle in her Anna and Peter Bouverie in The Rector’s Wife in contemporary terms, which we’ll read and discuss in the last two weeks, together with her The Choir, a contemporary re-creation of the church politics and whole mise-en-scene of the Barsetshire series in general. I’ve read with OLLI classes the first four there is no need to read these, but we’ll discuss them to start with (the one just before is The Small House at Allington). We’ll read Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset, the last or 6th Barsetshire novel, one of his many masterpieces, once seen as his signature book. A autumn syllabus for reading Trollope’s Last Chronicle of Barset and Joanna Trollope’s sequels at OLLI at Mason: Barsetshire Then & Nowįor a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at George Mason Universityĭay: Thursday afternoons, 2:15 to 3:40 pm,į407: Two Trollopes: Anthony and Joanna: The Last Chronicle of Barset and The Rector’s WifeĨ sessions at Tallwood, T-3, 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, Va 22032
