Margaret Oliphant

Una novela extraordinaria de una gran escritora victoriana La anciana Catherine Vernon es la figura dominante de la pequeña localidad inglesa de Redborough. Ha logrado abrirse paso en un mundo de hombres y dirigir el banco Vernon, el negocio familiar que salvo de la ruina cuando era mas joven. Desde su atalaya, Catherine contempla todo y a todos con distancia y cierto cinismo. Solo dos personas consiguen atravesar su coraza. Una es Hester, una joven con una personalidad tan fuerte como la suya con la que se enfrenta a menudo, y la otra es Edward, su favorito y heredero aparente, a quien trata y quiere como a un hijo. Entre Edward y Hester surgira un vinculo complejo que impulsara a ambos en una aventura de riesgos sexuales y financieros que terminara afectandolos no solo a ellos dos, sino tambien a Catherine y a todos los habitantes de Redborough. Margaret Oliphant es una de las grandes novelistas victorianas, y esta edicion de Hester, la primera en castellano, contribuye a restablecer su redescubierta importancia.

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Margaret Oliphant is one of the great Victorian novelists and "Hester" is a masterpiece of psychological realism published in 1883. In exploring the difficulty of understanding human nature, it is also a compulsive story of financial and sexual risk-taking that inevitably results in a searing climax."Hester" tells the story of the ageing but powerful Catherine Vernon, and her conflict with the young and determined Hester, whose growing attachment to Edward, Catherines favourite, spells disaster for all concerned.Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a mans world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependants with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherines, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward, who Catherine treats like a son. Conflict between the young and the old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters.

En las páginas de esta famosa novela de terror de Margaret Oliphant, los lectores encontrarán las claves del miedo: un ambiente tenebroso, muchas preguntas y fenómenos que parecen no tener explicació

Una broma pesada, una muerte imprevista, y unos efectos indeseados, son los materiales de los que Margaret Oliphant se sirve para contar la historia de un malentendido. Un error de tanta envergadura que subsanarlo, implicara que su protagonista atraviese una frontera. Lady Mary es una novela de aparecidos que entronca con la tradicion del gotico ingles. Sus personajes son encantadores, en especial la juguetona anciana Mary que da titulo al relato. Pero Oliphant no se engaña respecto a las pasiones humanas y al irrefrenable deseo de vida de la protagonista, cuyos rasgos de bondad y placidez se ven aplastados por un narcisismo infantil que acarreara graves consecuencias. Dialogos chispeantes, descripciones precisas y bellas y una atmosfera de extraña cotidianeidad, hacen de Lady Mary una pequeña joya literaria en el mundo de los fantasmas.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant.

"The Perpetual Curate" is the 5th of seven works set in the delightful country town of Carlingford by Margaret Oliphant. She wrote most of her books in the middle of the night, after all of her children and deadweight relatives had gone to bed. With that kind of constraint, she was able to crank out a novel as good as "The Perpetual Curate" in 1864.Frank Wentworth is the popular Perpetual Curate of the beautiful church of St Roques in Carlingford. The position is poorly paid and has no district attached, though he has unofficially taken over the poor district of Wharfside and is proud of the "great work" in progress there. He has yet to declare his love for Lucy Wodehouse, who works alongside him. Then numerous events affect his reputation and shatter his calm...

Illustrator: George Reid

IT was an old manor-house, not a deserted convent, as you might suppose by the name. The conventual buildings from which no doubt the place had taken its name, had dropped away, bit by bit, leaving nothing but one wall of the chapel, now closely veiled and mantled with ivy, behind the orchard, about a quarter of a mile from the house. The lands were Church lands, but the house was a lay house, of an older date than the family who had inhabited it from Henry VIII.s time, when the priory was destroyed, and its possessions transferred to the manor.

It was the most exciting event which had ever occurred in the family, and everything was affected by it.Imagine to yourselves such a young family, all in the very heyday of life, parents and children alike. It is true that Mrs. Kingsward was something of an invalid, but nobody believed that her illness was anything very serious, only a reason why she should be taken abroad, to one place after another, to the great enjoyment of the girls, who were never so happy as when they were travelling and gaining, as they said, experience of life. She was not yet forty, while Charlie was twenty-one and Bee nineteen, so that virtually they were all of the same age, so to speak, and enjoyed everything togethermamma by no means put aside into the ranks of the dowagers, but going everywhere and doing everything just like the rest, and as much admired as anyone.To be sure she had not been able to walk about so much this time, and had not danced once, except a single turn with Charlie, which brought on a palpitation, so that she declared with a laugh that her dancing days were over. Her dancing days over! Considering how fond she had always been of dancing, the three young people laughed over this, and did not take the least alarm. Mamma had always been the ringleader in everything, even in the romps with the little ones at home. For you must not think that these three were all of the family by any means.

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Hester by Margaret Oliphant Hester is an 1883 novel written by Margaret Oliphant. It examines the cycle of history through the lives of the Vernon family. The book was published in three separate volumes corresponding to three parts of the story.The novel was adapted (and the story reoriented) by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster for broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2013, showing Hester as a determined organizer successful for years but ultimately defeated by the male world of Victorian business.The Vernons Banking House is a thriving bank in England. After Mr. Rule, a clerk in the bank, hears rumors about a potential collapse of the bank, he seeks out bank owner John Vernon, but finds that Vernon has disappeared. Mr. Vernons wife has no information about his disappearance or matters of the bank. However, Catherine, a part-owner of the bank, uses her fortune to stop a run on the bank.Decades later, Mrs. Vernon and her 14-year-old daughter Hester move back to Redborough. When Hester meets Catherine, she forms an unfavorable impression, but she makes friends with Edward, who is Catherines confidante and protege.Five years later, Hester befriends the elderly Morgans, suffers through family dinners and rebuffs a marriage proposal from Harry, another of Catherines proteges.

Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant Miss Marjoribanks is an 1866 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in serialised form in Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865. It follows the exploits of its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, as she schemes to improve the social life of the provincial English town of Carlingford.The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel in September 1896, thought it "excellent".Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 20 June 1897[1]) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".Margaret was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, as the only daughter and youngest surviving child of Margaret Oliphant (c. 1789 17 September 1854) and Francis W. Wilson (c. 17881858), a clerk. She spent her childhood at Lasswade, Glasgow and Liverpool. A street, Oliphant Gardens in Wallyford, is named after her. As a girl, she continually experimented with writing.She had her first novel published, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, in 1849. This dealt with the relatively successful Scottish Free Church movement, with which her parents sympathised. Next came Caleb Field in 1851, the year she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited to contribute to Blackwoods Magazine a tie that continued for her lifetime and covered over 100 articles, including a critique of the character of Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter.

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men. This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1865) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Margaret Jay.

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life is an 1883 novel written by Margaret Oliphant. It examines the cycle of history through the lives of the Vernon family. The book was published in three separate volumes corresponding to three parts of the story. The novel was adapted (and the story reoriented) by Kate Clanchy and Zena Forster for broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in 2013, showing Hester as a determined organizer successful for years but ultimately defeated by the male world of Victorian business.Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".

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