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Novel 206: Margaret Oliphant, Lilliesleaf: Being a Concluding Series of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland (1855)

October 26, 2021 David Bywaters
Frederick Augustus Sandys, Margaret Oliphant

Frederick Augustus Sandys, Margaret Oliphant


A young wife is troubled by her husband’s thriftless pleasure-seeking.


Here is the sequel to last week’s novel, narrated by the same engaging middle-aged Scotswoman.

“In giving individuality and expression to the characters of the young people in the tale, the author has been very successful, and this, with the pen as with the pencil, is no easy achievement in art.  The other characters throughout the story are well drawn, and the novel will sustain the reputation gained by the former work, of which it is a companion and continuation.  Both contain good pictures of Scottish life.” Literary Gazette, November 24, 1855

“The concluding series of ‘Some Passages’ is to our thinking superior to the beginning, and this we take to be about the most satisfactory compliment we can pay the authoress.  There is a vein of simple good sense and pious feeling running throughout, for which no reader can fail to be the better.” Athenaeum, December 8, 1855

Download this week’s novel:

v.1 https://archive.org/details/lilliesleafbeing01olip

v.2 https://archive.org/details/lilliesleafbeing02olip

v.3 https://archive.org/details/lilliesleafbeing03olip

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