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Article: Trollope's professional gentleman: medical training and medical practice in Doctor Thorne and The Warden.(Anthony Trollope)
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2006
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In his autobiography, Anthony Trollope says that the idea for The Warden came to him on a surveying trip near Winchester, "whilst wandering there on a midsummer evening round the purlieus of the cathedral." The ancient environs and the Anglican traditions they evoked brought to Trollope's mind "the story ... from whence came that series of novels of which Barchester, with its bishops, deans, and archdeacon, was the central site" (92). In his account of this incident, Trollope seems to suggest that the central conflict depicted in The Warden is fictional--inspired by a scene or a place, not by the contemporary controversies, with which he presumably had some familiarity, ...