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Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
366 pages
ISBN
9781836103585
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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Description

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. Oliphant’s novel of sacrifice, self-making, and a woman who will not marry to please the house. The sewing room becomes a freer kind of inheritance.

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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