![]() ![]() ![]() The revenues of the hospital were very considerable, the work involved minimal. Francis North, later the Earl of Guildford, had been appointed to the mastership of the hospital by his father the bishop. In the mid nineteenth century there were a number of financial scandals in the Church of England including those of Rochester, where the endowments which should have supported the King’s School Canterbury had been diverted to the Dean and Chapter and of the hospital of St Cross at Winchester where the Rev. This book is the first of the Barsetshire series and was also Trollope’s first really successful novel. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and the clerical (The Barsetshire Chronicles) are the best known. Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. ![]()
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