A Widow's Tale Volume 1: And Other Stories

Name: A Widow's Tale Volume 1: And Other Stories
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836103417

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Language: English
Length: 296 pages
ISBN: 9781836103417
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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A Widow’s Tale: And Other Stories by Margaret Oliphant explores love, loss, and social expectation through interconnected lives. Central is Nelly Brunton, a young widow returning to her family, where her grief contrasts with the household’s romantic tensions. As relationships shift and jealousy stirs, the stories reveal the challenges of widowhood, identity, and emotional renewal within society.

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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Volume 1 · Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836102892
Volume 2 · Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836103424
Volume 2 · Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836102908