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A Country Gentleman and His Family

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
15 hours 16 minutes
ISBN
9781836102922
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • family duty
  • rural life
  • academic ambition
  • grief and loss
  • social expectation
  • provincial society
  • personal identity
  • inheritance
  • domestic relationships
  • coming of age

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A Country Gentleman and His Family by Margaret Oliphant follows Theodore Warrender, a young Oxford scholar grappling with his father’s death, family expectations, and personal ambition. As he navigates grief, academic pressures, and provincial life, the novel explores disillusionment, familial duty, and the pursuit of identity, offering a nuanced portrait of character, society, and the tensions between passion and obligation.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.

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