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This event costs £47

Introduction
The Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope wrote some of the most entertaining, perceptive, and best-loved works of English literature, including The Warden, Barchester Towers,The Way We Live Now and many more.  An Afternoon with Anthony Trollope, with Oxford University Press in conjunction with The Trollope Society, explores the reasons for his enduring popularity, and celebrates some of his most famous characters. The afternoon will feature a panel of Oxford World’s Classics editors and crime writer PD James

2pm: Trollope, Politics, and the Press
Dinah Birch, Nicholas Shrimpton and Helen Small. Chaired by John Bowen
Trollope tried unsuccessfully to enter Parliament and in the Palliser series he charted the fortunes of Plantagenet Palliser, who rises to become Prime Minister.  Then, as now, politics was bound up with intrigue, bribery, compromise, wealth, and sexual scandal, and a gutter press that could make or break a political career.  How was public life conducted in such circumstances, how does Trollope treat it in his fiction, and has anything really changed?  A panel discussion led by John Bowen of the University of York.

3pm: Trollope and Conflict
Dinah Birch, Nicholas Shrimpton and John Bowen. Chaired by Professor Helen Small
The themes that loom large in Trollope’s novels are relations between men and women and the pressures of money, power, and rank.  The marriage stakes were high, and some of Trollope’s most memorable scenes – some hilarious, some horrifying – depict struggles for control, conflict within marriage, and the internal clash of minds and emotions under enormous stress.  What were the social factors that influenced Trollope’s descriptions, and how recognizable are they today?  A panel discussion led by Helen Small.

4pm: Tea

4.30pm: Trollope, Women, and Love
John Bowen, Nicholas Shrimpton, Helen Small and PD James. Chaired by Professor Dinah Birch
Trollope’s female characters are portrayed with great psychological insight, from the redoubtable Mrs Proudie to the tortured Lady Laura Kennedy.  How does he create such memorable characters, and uncover the vacillations of the human heart?  A panel discussion with PD James and the editors of Trollope’s novels.   

5.30pm: Launch and drinks reception for Can You Forgive Her? edited by Dinah Birch
A toast will be made to mark the publication of the new edition of Can You Forgive Her? and the completion of the Palliser series in Oxford World’s Classics. Join Oxford University Press and The Trollope Society for a drinks reception with the panel of Oxford World’s Classics editors.