"THE WARDEN"
Sir-In The Listener for November 13, among some interesting comment on Anthony Trollope’s The Warden, it is stated that the local (Barchester) newspaper Jupiter took part in the controversy regarding the wardenship of Hiram’s Hospital. This- must be a slip of memory on the part of the commentator, for it is clear from the opening paragraphs of chapter 14 of The Warden that The Jupiter was a London newspaper. This can be confirmed from the Autobiography, where in chapter 15 Trollope says, "For I had introduced one Tom Towers as being potent among the contributors to The Jupiter, under which name I did certainly allude to The Times." The Times itself had no doubt about. the matter, and in an article on The Warden and Barchester Towers had taken Trollope to task for
indulging . in _ personalities regarding some editor or manager of the paper. Trollope declares "I had not even heard the name of any gentleman connected with the Times newspaper and could not have intended to represent any individual by Tom Towers. As I had created an archdeacon, so I had created a journalist." This creative power evidently gave Trollope much satisfaction, and in speaking of the archdeacon he says "My archdeacon .°. . was I think the simple result of an effort of moral con-sciousness-and lo! an archdeacon was produced who has been declared by competent authorities to be a real archdeacon down to the very ground. And yet as far as I can remember I had not then even spoken to an archdeacon."
R. L.
ANDREW
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 5
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260"THE WARDEN" New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 5
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