Barsetshire

Barsetshire

Barsetshire is a fictional county created by Anthony Trollope, which is featured in the series of novels known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". The county town and cathedral town is Barchester. Other towns mentioned in the novels include Silverbridge, Hogglestock, Greshamsbury.

In "Doctor Thorne" Trollope describes the way in which the county, formerly represented by a single Member of Parliament was split into two parliamentary seats, the more rural East Barsetshire, which includes Barchester, and the more commercial West Barsetshire, by the Reform Act of 1832.

Many of the episodes in "Let Dons Delight" (1939) by Ronald Knox refer to Barsetshire and its inhabitants.

Barsetshire was also used as the setting for a series of 29 novels by Angela Thirkell, written from 1930 to 1961. Thirkell's stories blend social satire with romance.

Barsetshire is also used in some of the Pullein-Thompson sisters books, usually referring to rival teams or as a nearby county.

Barchester and Barset were used as names for the fictional county in which St Trinians School was supposedly located in the original films.

See also: Borsetshire.


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