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

Name: Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836103493

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Language: English
Length: 76 pages
ISBN: 9781836103493
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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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. Oliphant’s story of the seen and the unseen, attachment, and a second chance beyond the grave. Mortality will not excuse a forgotten 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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Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836102977