‘I wish Mr Trollope would go on writingFramley Parsonagefor ever’–Elizabeth GaskellThe fourth of the Barsetshire Chronicles,Framley Parsonagewas published in 1860 to wide acclaim and has always been one of Trollope’s most popular novels. In it the values of a Victorian clergyman Mark Robarts, are put to the test. Through a combination of naivety and social ambition, Robarts is compromised and brought to the brink of ruin. Trollope tells his story with great compassion, offsetting the drama with his customary humour. Like all the Barsetshire novels, it is an extraordinarily evocative picture of everyday life in nineteenth-century England.The only printing ofFramley Parsonagethat Trollope himself supervised was the serial version in theCornhill Magazine.The editors of this edition have returned to that text and thus present Trollope’s work as he himself would have wished, avoiding hundreds of later corruptions and restoring a number of manuscript readings.