Creator's Favorite Episode: Anthony Trollope revealed in his autobiography that he considered The Last Chronicle of Barset to be his best novel.
Write What You Know: Money plays an important part in many of Trollope's novels. Mark Robarts gets into debt in Framley Parsonage, and the main plot of The Last Chronicle of Barset is kicked off by a missing cheque. Trollope was painfully familiar with financial difficulties, as his father wasted the family's money and he spent most of his childhood in poverty.
Write Who You Know: Trollope based Rev. and Mrs. Crawley on his own parents, Thomas and Frances Trollope.
The series:
Real-Life Relative: In the BBC adaptation The Barchester Chronicles, Mr. Harding and his elder daughter Susan Grantley are played by real-life father and daughter Donald and Angela Pleasence.
Barchester Towers was adapted for radio in 1938 and 1943. Doctor Thorne was turned into a radio miniseries in 1945. None of these programmes are known to survive.
The Warden was adapted into a television series in 1951. All six episodes are missing.
The Last Chronicle of Barset was adapted into a television series in 1959, and The Small House at Allington followed a year later. Both series are lost.
