Sir Joseph Mason

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Sir Joseph Mason is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," around whom much of the legal and familial drama revolves.

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instanceOf fictional character
literary character
appearsIn Orley Farm
appearsInWorkBy Anthony Trollope
associatedWithTheme English property law
family conflict
inheritance and legitimacy
bequeathsPropertyTo Lucius Mason
his elder son Joseph Mason
centralTo inheritance dispute over Orley Farm
legal drama in Orley Farm
createdBy Anthony Trollope
drivesPlotElement question of validity of codicil to his will
firstWife mother of his elder children
gender male
hasChild Anne Mason
Bridget Mason
John Mason
Joseph Mason (the elder son)
Joseph Mason (the elder son)
surface form: Joseph Mason (the younger son)

Lucius Mason
another unnamed daughter
hasLegalDocument contested codicil
original will
hasSpouse Lady Mason
influencesCharacter Joseph Mason’s resentment
Lady Mason’s actions
Lucius Mason’s social position
languageOfWork English
literaryGenre Victorian novel
literaryUniverse Chronicles of Barsetshire
surface form: Anthony Trollope’s Barsetshire/Orley Farm world
makesWill will concerning Orley Farm
narrativeRole source of posthumous legal conflict
nationality English
occupation landowner
ownsEstate Groby Park
Orley Farm
surface form: Orley Farm estate
relationshipWith Lady Mason as second wife
Lucius Mason as only child of second marriage
residence Orley Farm
secondWife Lady Mason
settingOfLife rural England
statusInNarrative deceased before main events of Orley Farm
timePeriod 19th-century England
title Sir

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Orley Farm mainCharacter Sir Joseph Mason