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Mrs Oliphant
Excerpt:'The sun had set upon the last evening of a cold and bleak December, and from the frosty sky, a few stars looked down upon the crowded streets of one of the largest towns in England; a motley scene, in which the actors, both gay and sorrowful
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Mrs. Oliphant
Innocent: A Tale of Modern Life is a novel written by Margaret Oliphant, who is often referred to as Mrs. Oliphant. The novel was first published in 1872 and is set in the Victorian era. It explores the complexities of Victorian society and the moral
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Mrs. Oliphant
Excerpt:'Not even in the centre of the old arched en trance which had been filled up, which gave a certain air of disreputable irregularity to the pale and stern old dwelling-place. Ivy and other clinging growths fortunately hid a great deal of this,
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Mrs. Oliphant Mrs. Oliphant
My Neighbour Nelly, Lady Denzil, The Stockbroker at Dinglewood, The Scientific Gentleman, Lady Isabella, An Elderly Romance, Mrs. Merridew's Fortune, The Barley Mow, My Faithful Johnny.
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Mrs. Oliphant
Excerpt:'‘My dear, the case is as plain as noonday; you must give this man up.'‘The case is not plain to me, father—at least, not in your sense.'‘Anne, you are very positive and self-opinionated, but you cannot—it is not possible—set up y
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Mrs. Oliphant
Excerpt: “There was a considerable number of people in the little parlour—to wit, Mr. Bates in his big chair on one side of the fire, sipping rum-and-water, and reading a newspaper which was soft and crumpled with the usage of the day at the near
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Mrs. Oliphant
Excerpt:'The old house of Earl's-hall stands on a long strip of land between two rivers, in that county affectionately known to its inhabitants as the kingdom of Fife. It is not a great house, but neither is it an insignificant one, though fortune ha
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Mrs. Oliphant
When Mrs Blencarrow's husband died a few years ago, his will left the management of the estate and the trusteeship of the children in her hands, adding as well her brothers'names as trustees, though this was more for form's sake than anything else. A
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Mrs. Oliphant
Captain Bellendean of Bellendean has returned to Scotland to begin life on his estate. He has brought several people with him including the older Colonel Hayward. Helping with the festivities is Joyce, the village schoolteacher - an outgoing, popular
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Mrs. Oliphant
The Doctor's Family is the third of seven works set in the delightful country town of Carlingford known as Oliphant's'Chronicles of Carlingford'. It was originally published in 1861 as part of a series which first appeared in Blackwood's Magazine. Ma