The Doctor's Red Lamp

Name: The Doctor's Red Lamp
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836103349

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Language: English
Length: 312 pages
ISBN: 9781836103349
Published: 20 March 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

rural medicine
physicians’ lives
patient care
medical compassion
family relationships
social acceptance
personal transformation
village life
moral responsibility
human resilience

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The Doctor’s Red Lamp by Margaret Oliphant is a collection of stories highlighting the lives of physicians and their profound impact on patients and communities. Opening with Abe Dodge, whose cross-eyed condition brings ridicule, the arrival of Dr. Daniel Brainard transforms his life. Blending humor, compassion, and moral reflection, the tales explore medicine, family, and social acceptance.

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 · Sovereign9781836102823