Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse gave the concluding lecture of our The Vicar of Bullhampton BIG READ. Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse served as the inaugural Sara E. Nance Eminent Professor of English at William & Mary from 2017 to 2022 and was twice designated a Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar, most recently for 2022–2024. In March 2024, she was appointed the NEH Eminent Professor of English.

Deborah is the author of Women in Trollope’s Palliser Novels (1987) and Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (2013). Deborah co-edited The Politics of Gender in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Regenia Gagnier, 2009) and The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (with Margaret Markwick and Mark Turner, 2016). Her most recent articles on Trollope are “Mourning Glencora” in My Victorian Novel (2020), edited by Annette Federico, and “Handling Private Dramas of Class and Gender in Anthony Trollope’s The Duke’s Children” in Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies (2020), edited by Pete Capuano and Sue Zemka.

The Vicar of Bullhampton  was first published London, Bradbury, Evans and Co., 1870

Resources

• Plot summary and character listing for The Vicar of Bullhampton
• Download The Vicar of Bullhampton free of charge from Project Gutenberg