Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist and civil servant whose fiction is known for social range, institutional intelligence and humane irony. He worked for the Post Office while building a major literary career. The Warden begins the Chronicles of Barsetshire and introduces his great fictional cathedral county.
The Warden is a quiet institutional novel about conscience, reform and the human cost of public righteousness. Septimus Harding is the gentle precentor of Barchester Cathedral and warden of Hiram's Hospital, a charitable almshouse for twelve elderly men.
