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Proudie, Mrs

The domineering wife of the Bishop of Barchester, who vies with Lady Glen and Planty Pal as Trollope’s greatest character. She won her struggle with Mr. Slope, the Bishop’s chaplain, for primacy in the diocese and drove him out of it, but when conquered by Mr. Crawley and Dr. Tempest she died and released the poor Bishop from his thralldom.