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A Widow's Tale Volume 1: And Other Stories

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
10 hours 56 minutes
ISBN
9781836102892
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • widowhood
  • grief and loss
  • family dynamics
  • romantic tension
  • social expectations
  • emotional renewal
  • jealousy
  • domestic life
  • women’s roles
  • personal identity

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Description

Young widow Nelly Brunton returns to her family carrying grief into a household already stirred by romantic tension and jealousy, where love, loss, and expectation test every renewed claim on life. Soft feeling meets sharp social pressure. Spoken as when a widow’s tale still asks what the heart can reopen when society has already named her loss.

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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