The Minister's Wife

Name: The Minister's Wife
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836103646

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Language: English
Length: 378 pages
ISBN: 9781836103646
Published: 30 March 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

rural Scotland
family loyalty
social dynamics
sisters’ relationships
faith and religion
community expectations
personal sacrifice
romance
miraculous events
domestic life

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The Minister’s Wife by Margaret Oliphant follows sisters Margaret and Isabel Diarmid in a rural Scottish parish as they face loss, faith, and social pressure after their father’s death. Amid family tensions, romance, and claims of miraculous healing, Margaret’s quiet suffering contrasts with Isabel’s worldly concerns, exploring belief, duty, and the strain of community expectations.

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 · Sovereign9781836103127