The WardenBy: Anthony Trollope Anthony Trollope's The Warden is the first of his well loved Chronicles of Barsetshire, edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour in Penguin Classics. The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well meaning warden, finds himself pitted