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The Curate in Charge

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
7 hours 35 minutes
ISBN
9781836103110
Published
30 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • clergy life
  • rural parish
  • family relationships
  • social expectations
  • domestic change
  • grief and loss
  • pastoral duties
  • personal growth
  • Victorian society
  • community dynamics

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Description

Reverend Cecil St. John holds Brentburn as curate in charge while the real rector is away, until the living is given to another. Daughters Cicely and Mab, a second marriage, and a house that was never securely his unsettle quiet duty. Family bonds, loss, and precarious tenure in a rural parish where love and adaptation must meet a notice on the door.

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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