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

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: A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Margaret Oliphant follows an elderly woman reflecting on her long life as she faces mortality. Reluctant to settle her affairs, she leaves her young goddaughter’s future uncertain. Blending memory with quiet spiritual reflection, the story explores responsibility, attachment, and the delicate boundary between the visible world and what lies beyond.

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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