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Madonna Mary Volume 1

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
8 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781836103097
Published
30 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • marriage doubts
  • British India
  • societal expectations
  • love and honor
  • marital tension
  • personal insecurity
  • reputation
  • emotional conflict
  • domestic life
  • family dynamics

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In British India, Mary Ochterlony’s marriage is shaken when a key witness’s death casts doubt on its legitimacy and her husband urges a second ceremony she will not accept. Honor, pride, and love strain under social fear. Spoken as when Madonna Mary still asks what a wife can refuse once a missing witness already owns the household’s peace.

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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