Doctor Thorne

Doctor Thorne is Anthony Trollope's 1858 novel about love and inheritance in the society of Barsetshire. Mary Thorne's relationship with Frank Gresham encounters a family determined that he must marry wealth, while her guardian holds knowledge that may alter her position. Birth, money, and reputation become competing measures of a person's worth. Trollope allows affection and conscience to challenge these calculations without pretending that social pressure is easily escaped. The novel is the third of the Chronicles of Barsetshire.