The Rector and the Doctor’s Family
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- Under 100
- First published
- 1861
- Pages
- 160
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Two linked stories open Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford and introduce the town that would carry her finest fiction. In the first, a shy Oxford scholar named Mr Proctor takes up the rectorship of Carlingford and discovers, at a dying woman's bedside, how unfit his bookish life has left him for the real work of a parish. The second and longer tale follows Dr Edward Rider, a young physician burdened by his drunken elder brother, whose abandoned wife and children arrive on the scene along with the brisk, self-sacrificing Nettie, who takes their whole disorder in hand. Together the pieces sketch a world of quiet duty and thwarted feeling.
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Book facts
- Author
- Margaret Oliphant
- First published
- 1861
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 160
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Domestic Fiction
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online