Which English author’s novels are set in the imaginary county of Barsetshire?
Chronicles of Barsetshire Chronicles of Barsetshire The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manœuvrings that go on among and between them. Of the six novels, the second in the series, "Barchester Towers", is generally the best known, while the last was Trollope's own favourite. Together, the series is regarded by many as Trollope's finest work. The novels in the series are: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Barsetshire (in Trollope's own words) "a little bit of England which I have myself created". In "Doctor Thorne" Trollope describes how the county, formerly represented by a single parliamentary constituency, was split into two constituencies, the more rural East Barsetshire, which includes Barchester, and the more commercial West Barsetshire, by the Reform Act 1832. The borough of Silverbridge, according to the Palliser novels, also elects a Member of Parliament. The novel "Barchester Pilgrimage" (1935), and some of the episodes in "Let Dons Delight" (1939), both by Ronald Knox, refer to Barsetshire and its inhabitants. Barsetshire was also used as the setting