Palliser novels Palliser novels The Palliser novels are six novels by Anthony Trollope. They were more commonly known (before the BBC aired a television adaptation) as the Parliamentary Novels. The common threads throughout the series are the wealthy aristocrat and politician Plantagenet Palliser, and his wife, Lady Glencora. The plots involve British and Irish politics in varying degrees, specifically in and around Parliament. The Pallisers do not always play major roles, and in "The Eustace Diamonds" they merely comment on the main action. The books are: The series overlaps with Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, also a series of six novels, which deal
The Pallisers "Phineas Redux". Plantagenet Palliser becomes Prime Minister. Lady Glencora becomes a society hostess. It concludes with the death of Glencora, and the story of the marriages of the children. These episodes cover the events of the last two of Trollope's Palliser novels, "The Prime Minister" and "The Duke's Children". All episodes of "The Pallisers" are available on DVD in Australia, the United Kingdom and North America. Reviewing the series for the 2016 rebroadcast, Gerald O'Donovan wrote, "In a world where BBC drama tends to be commissioned in taste-testing dribs and drabs of three or six episodes the mere fact that