Dr. Wortle's school

Description:

Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and the county is scandalized. Ostracised by the community, the pair seem trapped in a hopeless situation - until the combative but warm-hearted headmaster of the school, Dr Wortle, offers his support, and Mr Peacocke embarks upon a journey to America that he hopes will lay to rest the accusations once and for all. A perceptive exploration of Victorian morality, Dr Wortle's School (1881) also contains echoes of Trollope's own life, and his personal affection for the vivacious Bostonian Kate Field.

subjects: Fiction,  Married people,  School principals,  Americans,  Classicists,  Extortion,  England,  Northamptonshire,  Social life and customs,  Large type books,  Americans -- England -- Fiction,  School principals -- Fiction,  Married people -- Fiction,  Classicists -- Fiction,  Extortion -- Fiction,  England -- Fiction,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  England, fiction,  Bigamy,  English literature,  Domestic fiction,  English fiction

Places: England

Times: 19th century