1861
FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, | By | Anthony Trollope, | Author of “Barchester Towers,” etc. etc. | with Six Illustrations by J. E. Millais, R.A. | In Three Volumes. | London: | Smith, Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill. | M.DCCC.LXI. | [The right of Translation is reserved.]
Small 8vo. Vol. I., pp. 333; Vol. II., pp. 318; Vol. III., pp. 330.
There are two illustrations in each volume, the list being on page iv. (unnumbered) of Vol. I.
Messrs. Smith & Elder, having offered Trollope £1000 for the copyright of a three-volume novel to appear serially in their new venture, the Cornhill, declined Castle Richmond on account of its Irish character, but begged him to frame some other story, suggesting the Church as a theme peculiar to his powers. He thereupon fell back on his old Barchester friends and wrote a tale that became increasingly popular as it proceeded. Framley Parsonage appeared in the Cornhill from January 1860 to April 1861. The author himself doubted the possibility of making a character more life-like than Lucy Robarts.