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The Warden Find!
The Warden was Anthony Trollope's fourth novel and the first in the series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire published in 1855.
Trollope, was briefly a scholar at
The Warden is considered to be an amalgam of
'John Hiram made a will, and left his property in charity for certain poor old men, and the proceeds, instead of going to the benefit of these men, goes chiefly into the pocket of the warden ...' (pages 48-49)
Trollope's hero, the Warden, is a good man who accepted his post in good faith and does his job to best of his ability. He is aghast to find himself the centre of controversy and believes that he has no right to be there:
He has that he has: 'No right to be warden with eight hundred a year; no right to be warden with such a house as this; no right to spend in luxury money that was intended for charity.' (pages 112-113)
He accepts a much less well paid job as rector of a tiny church which is based upon St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate,
St Cross Hospital still provides a home in a unique environment alongside the water meadows, for the 20 plus brothers who currently live there. Described by Trollope as 'a picturesque building enough, and shows the correct taste with which the ecclesiastical architects of these days were imbued. It stands on the banks of the little river which flows nearly round the cathedral close, being on the side furthest from the town' (page 5). The almshouse still exists and 'are England's oldest and most perfect almshouse' (England's Thousand best Churches, Simon Jenkins).
7 August 2009 from Cordelia Gray
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- New Milton's new Milton
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- PG Wodehouse in Emsworth
- Walking In My Sleep
- Nicola Slade's Victorian Mysteries
- England's Lost Eden
- June Tate
- Bullington
- Speed The Plough: A Country Song
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- Haslar Hospital Memories
- Magical writing for children
- Inspired by the Tichborne Claimant
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- The Play Room
- Kipling's dislikes
- Deadman's Plack
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- Portsea Sagas
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- Crossing the Bar
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- Growing up in Portsmouth
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- Hampshire Days
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- Edward Thomas and Froxfield
- Betjeman explores hidden corners of Hampshire
- Rebecca Smith
- Right of Access
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- In this house
- Words & Walks
- England, Their England
- An Ode to a Road
- The story of a house
- Crime Connections to the City
- John Keat's Ode to Autumn
- William Lisle Bowles, poet
- Future Princes of Winchester
- Spike Island by Philip Hoare
- The marriage of souls
- Rural Rides: William Cobbett
- Elinor Brent-Dyer remembered
- Dornford Yates' Hampshire connection
- The Marlows, their maker and stealing a corner of Dorset
- Saint Cross: England's Oldest Almshouse
- Winchester the whole day through
- HOW TO BE A BETTER PERSON
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- See it My Way
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