Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage is a novel by Anthony Trollope, published in 1861. It first appeared in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860 and is the fourth of the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Mark Robarts is a young clergyman who has been given the living at Framley, and whose father, a physician in Exeter with a good practice and no private means, has educated him into expectations that his salary cannot support. Mark is flattered into accepting help and a form of patronage from a man whose reputation should have warned him off, and the consequences come due in the form of a debt he cannot pay and a compromise that damages the people closest to him. Around this main thread the novel arranges the courtship of his sister Lucy by Lord Lufton, opposed by Lufton's mother, and the manoeuvres of a clerical world in which a bishop's wife and an ambitious chaplain have their own plans. It is the Barsetshire novel in which Trollope's fictional county most resembles a working society, with money and marriage moving together.

The book was serialised in the magazine that made Trollope's name as a novelist, and it was written while he was also working as a civil servant.