Title: 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
Time periods: 19th century