Title: The Pallisers
Description: A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.
Subjects: Politics and government, Social life and customs, Man-woman relationships, Husband and wife, Aristocracy (Social class), Upper class families, Drama, Historical television programs
Places: Great Britain, England
Time periods: 1837-1901, 19th century