The Perpetual Curate Volume 1

Name: The Perpetual Curate Volume 1
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781836103479

Author: Margaret Oliphant
Language: English
Length: 206 pages
ISBN: 9781836103479
Published: 20 March 2026
Imprint: Sovereign

clergy life
parish duties
small town society
religious responsibility
social expectations
romantic tension
moral conflict
ambition and duty
Victorian community
reputation and status

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The Perpetual Curate by Margaret Oliphant follows Frank Wentworth, a devoted clergyman in Carlingford striving to uphold his duties amid a negligent rector and watchful society. As he takes on growing responsibilities and pursues a delicate romance with Lucy Wodehouse, he faces tensions between ambition, love, and reputation, revealing the challenges of faith and social expectation in a close-knit community.

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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Volume 1 · Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836102953
Volume 2 · Ebook · English · Sovereign9781836103486
Volume 2 · Audiobook · English · Sovereign9781836102960