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Young Musgrave

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
390 pages
ISBN
9781836103561
Published
20 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • family legacy
  • estate management
  • estranged relationships
  • reconciliation
  • duty and sacrifice
  • rural setting
  • generational conflict
  • emotional healing
  • guardianship
  • family honor

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Young Musgrave by Margaret Oliphant centers on Mary Musgrave, who manages her family’s fading estate under the shadow of past scandals. As her estranged brother’s children arrive, old wounds resurface, challenging loyalty and forgiveness. Balancing duty with compassion, Mary must confront family tensions and redefine her role, exploring sacrifice, renewal, and the healing of fractured ties.

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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