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Lady William Volume 1

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 53 minutes
ISBN
9781836102861
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • social class
  • village life
  • mother-daughter relationship
  • social prejudice
  • genteel poverty
  • personal identity
  • aristocratic ties
  • societal expectations
  • family reputation
  • rural community

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In Watcham, Lady William keeps a modest house with Mab while neighbours still remember the governess behind the title. The Swinfords’ return stirs old steering of her marriage and presses whether the union will stand for her daughter’s sake. Class as village talk: a widow learning that a name is nothing if she cannot prove it.

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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