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Lady William Volume 2

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 46 minutes
ISBN
9781836102878
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’s second stretch in Watcham turns on proving the marquis’s marriage while Mrs Swinford, Leo, and Jim tighten the noose of gossip around Mab. A mother’s last duty meets a Hall that wants the story told its own way. Spoken continuation of village rank: legitimacy fought for in talk, memory, and the papers that must hold.

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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