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Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
2 hours 31 minutes
ISBN
9781836102977
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • mortality and aging
  • memory and reflection
  • inheritance
  • spiritual themes
  • unseen world
  • family responsibility
  • emotional attachment
  • legacy and duty
  • life and death
  • contemplative fiction

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Description

Old Lady Mary hides a will meant for her young goddaughter, dies before setting things right, and returns as a ghost seeking to mend the unseen damage of love left unfinished. Responsibility crosses the boundary of death. Spoken as when old Lady Mary still asks what the dead can fix when the living paper was never signed.

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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