Ecclesiastical power struggles in the cathedral town of Barchester pit the oily chaplain Mr. Slope and the domineering Mrs. Proudie against the old guard as suitors circle the widowed Eleanor Bold.
Books mentioned in Barchester Towers (2)
The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope: “In poetry, she was familiar with names as late as Dryden, and had once been seduced into reading "The Rape of the Lock;" but she regarded Spenser as the purest type of her country's literature in this line.”
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens: “And when he got home, he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the Little Dorrit of the day with great inward satisfaction.”
Books that mention Barchester Towers (1)
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “She used a line from Trollope's Barchester Towers as an epigraph”