Old Mr. Tredgold

Margaret Oliphant Wilson OliphantProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 3.2
Word count
876K words
Chapters
88

Tags

English Originals Foreign Literature Fate and FortuneFamily BondsComplex HumanityPsychological InsightSlow ReadingSatirical StyleVictorian EraFemale Perspective

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Old Mr. Tredgold by Mrs. OliphantAuthor: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Jul 19, 2017

Editor's review

Old Mr. Tredgold is a work by Margaret Oliphant, a prolific Victorian novelist, made freely available to the public through Project Gutenberg. Oliphant excelled at depicting domestic life, social relations and inner lives, and her narratives often build tension through everyday detail. This novel likewise centers on an elderly gentleman and unfolds around family, property and emotional ties, carrying the typical flavor of nineteenth-century English fiction. For readers curious about the Victorian novel or studying Oliphant's development, it is a readily accessible primary text. The electronic edition is in the original English, a lightweight choice for reading in the original and convenient for researchers to search and cite. Note that the Gutenberg version offers a public-domain electronic text without a modern introduction or annotations, so readers must navigate the period background and language on their own.

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About the author

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant Author · British (Scottish) · 1828–1897

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, 1828–1897) was a prolific Scottish novelist, historical writer and biographer of the Victorian era. Born in Wallyford, she gained fame in 1849 with Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. In 1852 she married her cousin Frank Oliphant; widowed in 1859, she supported her children by her pen and published more than a hundred works in her lifetime. The library holds 90 of her works, including the Carlingford Chronicles, Salem Chapel, Miss Marjoribanks, supernatural tales, Hester, Kirsteen and the autobiography The Days of My Life. She is known for her delicate, humorous portrayals of small-town life and for her historical and biographical writing, and stands as a representative professional woman writer of the Victorian period.