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Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
13 hours 19 minutes
ISBN
9781836103066
Published
30 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • family duty
  • rural life
  • Scottish setting
  • domestic responsibilities
  • sacrifice and loyalty
  • women’s roles
  • emotional conflict
  • love and restraint
  • social expectations
  • coming of age

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Kirsteen Douglas refuses a forced match and leaves her Scotch family for London, where dressmaking becomes the hard road to independence while duty, love, and pride still pull her home. Courage and craft remake a woman’s fate beyond the estate. Spoken as when Kirsteen still asks what a daughter can earn when obedience will no longer buy her life.

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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