Earlier this week, The Trollope Society held the final online book club meeting of the novel we'd been reading since the beginning of the year, The Vicar of Bullhampton. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, which was completely new to me. Anthony Trollope was an especially prolific writer, so even though I've read his works for many years, there are still many that I have yet to read. Another such novel is Dr. Wortle's School, which is the next book in the yearlong book club reading list. This one is a bit shorter, and will be covered in two bi-weekly meetings, as opposed to the six that covered Vicar of Bullhampton. As I dive into one of Anthony Trollope's last novels, I gather it will cover what was in Victorian times an unpardonable sin: a man and woman living together, unmarried. Such a condition is now commonplace, but even still, we have other issues of intolerance and bigotry that are the modern day equivalents of "living in sin". What lessons will Trollope offer for those who judge and those who are judged by an intolerant society?
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