Septimus Harding, precentor of Barchester Cathedral, lives happily as warden of Hiram’s Hospital, an almshouse for twelve old men. Young reformer John Bold, who loves Harding’s daughter Eleanor, questions whether the warden’s income rightly belongs to the bedesmen, and the London newspaper the Jupiter takes up the cause.
The 1855 novel that opened the Barsetshire series, and the easiest way into Trollope. Download the free EPUB.