Archdeacon Grantly Walks Again: Trollope’s Clergy Then and Now stocked the Oratory

the Oratory

I still very much look forward to visiting the places themselves

as well as to culture and common human experience

Master of Magdalene College

and inspires them to live for God in their daily lives

Archdeacon Grantly Walks Again: Trollope’s Clergy Then and Now stocked the OratoryHere is a gripping, thought provoking read which will tell you more about clergy than you knew or imagined whether you are into Church matters or a curious outsider. Anthony Trollopes novels contain vivid character sketches of clergy, from bishops to curates, as watchers of the BBC TV Barchester series will know. Here are priests where snobbery, jealousy, ambition and greed sit alongside love, kindness and generosity, often in equal measure. Alongside