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Lady William Volume 1

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
234 pages
ISBN
9781836103387
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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Lady William, once a rector’s daughter and now a marquis’s widow of small means, lives in Watcham with daughter Mab under the old stigma of the governess she once was. When the Swinfords return to the Hall, class prejudice and a past marriage she may have to prove close around Mab’s future. Village rank as weather: legitimacy begins as a mother’s first hard duty.

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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