title: Dr. Wortle's School (Penguin Classics)
author:  Anthony Trollope 
description: Can it be right to persist in a bigamous marriage?<P>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 American first husband appears at the school gates, their dreadful secret is revealed, and the county is scandalized. In the character of Dr Wortle, the combative but warm-hearted headmaster, who takes the couple's part in the face of general ostracism, there is an element of self-portrait. There are echoes, too, in Wortle's gallantry to Mrs Peacocke, of Trollope's own attachment to the vivacious Bostonian, Kate Field.<P>With its scathing depiction of American manhood, its jousting with convention and its amiable, egotistical protagonist, Dr Wortle's School (1879) is one of the sharpest and most engaging of Trollope's later novels.
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  # Dr. Wortle's School
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Anthony Trollope
  
  
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  DR WORTLE
  
  
  THE NEW USHER
  
  
  THE MYSTERY
  
  
  THE DOCTOR ASKS HIS QUESTION
  
  
  "THEN WE MUST GO"
  
  
  LORD CARSTAIRS
  
  
  ROBERT LEFROY
  
  
  THE STORY IS TOLD
  
  
  MRS WORTLE AND MR PUDDICOMBE
  
  
  MR PEACOCKE GOES
  
  
  THE BISHOP
  
  
  THE STANTILOUP CORRESPONDENCE
  
  
  MR PUDDICOMBE'S BOOT
  
  
  "EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS"
  
  
  "'AMO' IN THE COOL OF THE EVENING"
  
  
  "IT IS IMPOSSIBLE"
  
  
  CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE PALACE
  
  
  THE JOURNEY
  
  
  "NOBODY HAS CONDEMNED YOU HERE"
  
  
  LORD BRACY'S LETTER
  
  
  AT CHICAGO
  
  
  THE DOCTOR'S ANSWER
  
  
  MR PEACOCKE'S RETURN
  
  
  MARY'S SUCCESS
  
  
  
  
  
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  DR WORTLE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  The Rev. Jeffrey Wortle, D.D., was a man much esteemed by others --
  
  
  and by himself. He combined two professions, in both of which he had
  
  
  been successful -- had been, and continued to be, at the time in which
  
  
  we speak of him. I will introduce him 