ABSTRACT
BAKER’s aim was to “let the fiction throw light on the Oxford Movement”, and to allow minor writings to assist us in understanding greater ones. He is skilful in balancing internal views, like those of Charlotte Yonge, with external (Anthony Trollope). He was perhaps the first to analyze Trollope’s conflation of periods of time, so that Trollope’s Reverend Arabin, who has experienced Newman’s influence, is contemporary with the old High-and-dry thinking, which flourished before the Reform Bill.
