The Proudies

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The Proudies are a socially ambitious and often meddlesome clerical family in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, notably associated with ecclesiastical politics and provincial intrigue.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional family
literary character group
appearsInFictionalUniverse Barsetshire
appearsInWork Barchester Towers
Framley Parsonage
The Last Chronicle of Barset
associatedWithInstitution Barchester Cathedral
associatedWithLocation Barchester
associatedWithRole Bishop of Barchester
centralThemeRelation church versus laity power struggles
clergy politics
social climbing
characterType antagonistic clerical household
conflictsWith Archdeacon Grantly
Mr. Arabin
Mr. Septimus Harding
linked to: Mr Septimus Harding
countryOfOriginOfWork United Kingdom
createdBy Anthony Trollope
depicts tension between high church and low church factions
firstAppearanceWork Barchester Towers
firstPublicationYear 1857
genre Victorian fiction
hasKeyMemberRole domineering bishop’s wife
evangelical bishop
hasMember Bishop Thomas Proudie
linked to: Bishop Proudie

Mrs. Proudie
linked to: Mrs Proudie

the Proudie children
influencesPlotOf Barchester Towers
The Last Chronicle of Barset
languageOfWork English
literaryFunction satire of ecclesiastical and social pretension
literaryPeriod Victorian era
nationalityOfFictionalContext English
notableFor ecclesiastical politics
meddling in church affairs
provincial intrigue
social ambition
partOfSeries Chronicles of Barsetshire
portrayedAs interfering in diocesan appointments
moralistic and authoritarian in religious matters
settingType provincial English cathedral town
timePeriodOfFictionalSetting 19th century

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Barsetshire hasNotableFamily The Proudies