Bishop's Palace, Barchester

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Bishop's Palace, Barchester is the official episcopal residence in Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire novels, serving as the central setting for much of the clerical and social drama involving Mrs Proudie and the cathedral community.

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Bishop's Palace, Barchester canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional building
fictional residence
literary location
appearsInWork Barchester Towers
Doctor Thorne
Framley Parsonage
The Last Chronicle of Barset
The Small House at Allington
The Warden
associatedWithCharacter Archdeacon Grantly
Bishop Proudie
Mr Slope
Mrs Proudie
associatedWithInstitution Barchester Cathedral
associatedWithTitle Bishop of Barchester
centralSettingFor clerical politics in Barchester
social drama in Barchester
countryInFiction England
createdBy Anthony Trollope
fictionalStatus imaginary place
firstPublishedInContext 1850s
function episcopal residence
official residence of the Bishop of Barchester
genreContext Victorian realist fiction
hasFictionalUse domestic scenes of the Proudie family
private conferences of church officials
receptions and social gatherings
hasThemeAssociation church politics
clergy life
social hierarchy
inUniverseReligion Anglicanism
languageOfWork English
literaryTradition English church novel
locatedInFictionalCounty Barsetshire
locatedInFictionalPlace Barchester
linked to: Barchester series
medium prose fiction
narrativeRole site of conflict between High Church and Evangelical factions
symbol of ecclesiastical authority
partOfSeries Chronicles of Barsetshire
relatedWorkCycle Barsetshire novels
settingForCharacterDevelopmentOf Bishop Proudie
Mr Slope
Mrs Proudie
setWithin diocese of Barchester (fictional)

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Mrs Proudie associatedWith Bishop's Palace, Barchester