Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago

Name: Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836103585

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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Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago by Margaret Oliphant follows Kirsteen Douglas as she navigates family duty, love, and expectation in rural Scotland. Caring for her ailing mother while her brothers depart for India, she struggles between loyalty and personal desire. The novel explores sacrifice, emotional restraint, and a young woman’s search for fulfillment within a restrictive 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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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836103066