The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne

By Anthony Trollope

But our present story will have more to do with his daughter than with him. A pretty girl, I have said, was Patience Woolsworthy; and one, too, in many ways remarkable. She had taken her outlook into life, weighing the things which she had and those which she had not, in a manner very unusual, and, as a rule, not always desirable for a young lady. The things which she had not were very many.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Start Classics
• Release date: May 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781609779863

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was the third son of a barrister, who ruined his family by giving up the law for farming, and an industrious mother. After attending Winchester and Harrow, Trollope scraped into the General Post Office, London, in 1834, where he worked for seven years. In 1841 he was transferred to Ireland as a surveyor's clerk, and in 1844 married and settled at Clonmel. His first two novels were devoted to Irish life; his third, La Vendée, was historical. All were failures. After a distinguished career in the GPO, for which he invented the pillar box and travelled extensively abroad, Trollope resigned in 1867, earning his living from writing instead. He led an extensive social life, from which he drew material for his many social and political novels. The idea for The Warden (1855), the first of the six Barsetshire novels, came from a visit to Salisbury Close; with it came the characters whose fortunes were explored through the succeeding volumes, of which Doctor Thorne is the third.

Reviews for The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne

[philsyphe · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

“The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Colne” is a short story set in Devonshire. Patience Woolsworthy is the parson’s daughter. Patience by name, but not so by nature, except for her caring nature regarding those who are worse off than herself.The tale is essentially of a love story; however, it doesn’t have a predictable outcome.Mr Trollope writes some impressive descriptive passages. At times, though, I feel the story would’ve worked better had he given the characters more dialogue to dramatize certain scenes, showing the reader what’s going on, rather than have the third person narrator telling who did and said what.A worthwhile read.

[lindawwilson · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Good story, but a short story which I do not like as much as a novel; read in Maui 2/08