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Joyce

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
444 pages
ISBN
9781836103660
Published
30 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • social class
  • identity
  • belonging
  • upper-class society
  • hidden lineage
  • personal ambition
  • romance
  • self-discovery
  • societal expectations
  • foundling protagonist

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Joyce by Margaret Oliphant follows a young schoolmistress of uncertain origins navigating upper-class society. Drawn into the world of the Bellendeans, she attracts attention while questioning her place and identity. As hints of hidden lineage emerge, Joyce must reconcile ambition, belonging, and self-worth amid the pressures of class and expectation.

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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