Status Updates From Framley Parsonage (The ^ABa...

Refusing to feel sympathy for Mr. Sowerby. No. Not gonna do it.

The Griselda Grantly subplot and the Mr. Sowerby subplot are resolving nicely. There’s been a retreat of the palpable anxiety of the first 30% of the book.

Barsetshire may not be ready for Rev. Crawley.

The Trollope Literary Universe is almost
my favorite thing about Trollope.

Mark is pressured by
Sowerby to put his name on a bill. And my anxiety is twigged.

2026 Reread. I tend to get hung up in the first quarter of the book. I dread Mark getting mixed up with the Chaldicotes set.

(...) She said also, with equal formality, (...) that she would in no respect detract by interference of her own from the authority of the proper mistress of the house. Nevertheless, it is well known to every one at Framley that old Lady Lufton still reigns paramount in the parish.