Barsetshire is a fictional county created by Anthony Trollope, which is featured in the series of novels known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". The county town and cathedral town is Barchester. Other towns mentioned in the novels include Silverbridge, Hogglestock, and Greshamsbury.
Trollope implies that an administrative division has split the county into East Barsetshire, which includes Barchester, and West Barsetshire.
After a short time in Belgium he obtained an appointment in the Post Office, in which he rose to a responsible position.
His first three novels had little success; but in 1855 he found his line, and in The Warden produced the first of his Barsetshire series.
It was followed by Barchester Towers (1857), Doctor Thorne (1858), Framley Parsonage (1861), The Small House at Allington (1864), and The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), which deal with the society of a small cathedral city.
Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Barsetshire Chronicles, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire, but he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social and inter-gender issues and conflicts of his day.
The BBC commissioned a four-part radio adaptation of The Small House at Allington, the fifth novel of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, which was broadcast in 1993.
The response of listeners was so positive that adaptations of the five remaining novels of the series were commissioned and the complete series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between December 1995 and March 1998.
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