Dr. Wortle's School is Trollope's most merciless attack on the false moralising and hypocrisy of the Victorian age.

When Dr. Wortle, in good faith, hires a couple as teacher and matron at his school, scandal about their marriage is subsequently brought to light. Will the doctor submit to the social pressures brought to bear on him by the gossip, the local newspaper and the bishop or hold true to his humanism, perhaps losing his respect, school and livelihood as a result?

In this story Trollope invites discussion of the prevailing doctrines of English society in the late 19th century. It is one of his best works, truly a classic of literature.

Collection	Narrator	Length
Victorian	Peter Joyce	9 hrs

Media	Compact Disc	Audio Tape
Media Qty	8	6
Audio Format	CD-DA	Analogue
Book Code	VI-101CD	VI-101TA
ISBN	978 1 86015 014 2	978 1 86015 429 4
Price	£22.99	£19.99

Anthony Trollope (1815 –1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

His mother would later become a successful writer. His father worked as a barrister. Trollope, though a clever and well-educated man and a Fellow of New College Oxford, failed at the bar due to his bad temper. Not only that, but his ventures into farming proved unprofitable and he lost an expected inheritance when an elderly uncle married and had children. Nonetheless, he came from a genteel background, with connections to the landed gentry, and so wished to educate his sons as gentlemen and for them to attend Oxford or Cambridge. The conflict between his family's social background and its poverty would cause misery to Anthony Trollope as a boy....

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