When old Bishop Grantly dies just as the government changes, the mitre goes not to his son the archdeacon but to the meek Dr. Proudie, who arrives with a domineering wife and an ambitious chaplain, Mr. Slope. Battle lines form over Hiram’s Hospital, Sabbath schools and the widowed Eleanor Bold, while the exotic Signora Neroni amuses herself with every man in the diocese.
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