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Phoebe Junior

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
394 pages
ISBN
9781836103400
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • social ambition
  • religious society
  • class mobility
  • dissenting community
  • marriage and status
  • social scrutiny
  • female independence
  • family expectations
  • rivalry and jealousy
  • identity and self-discovery

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Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant follows Phoebe Tozer, an ambitious young woman navigating the social and religious world of Carlingford. As she rises through marriage into a minister’s household, she faces scrutiny, jealousy, and class tensions. Balancing pride and perception, Phoebe must confront her ambitions and identity within a society shaped by status, faith, and expectation.

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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