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Lady William Volume 2

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
232 pages
ISBN
9781836103394
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

Description

The Watcham fight deepens as Lady William must prove the wedding that made Mab legitimate while Mrs Swinford’s old hand and Leo’s hunger for his own life pull the Hall into the quarrel. Jim at the pub, village gossip, and a mother’s last duty collide as class prejudice tests every paper and memory. Volume two of rank and belonging: proving the past so Mab can own a future.

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.