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Verlyn Klinkenborg has a nice little commentary about the Barsetshire novels of Angela Thirkell. He mentions that they share the geography of Trollope, if I remember correctly Thirkell is actually a cousin or some such relation to Trollope. I've always enjoyed the books, and have several in inventory.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/04/opinion/04fri3.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
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FYI, Thirkell is no relation to Trollope but "her mother was Margaret Burne-Jones, daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, and through her Thirkell was the first cousin of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin." See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Thirkell
There are yahoo groups for both Trollope and Thirkell and I remember someone in the Thirkell group saying something about the Trollope group not liking Thirkell's use of Barset. No love love lost there, I think.
I only discovered Thirkell last year and have enjoyed reading her Barset books. I still have several more to find. I've read all the ones at the library and it is hard to find the rest on line.
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