Name: Lady Car; The Sequel of A Life
Author: Margaret Oliphant
ISBN: 9781904999782

Lady Car; The Sequel of A Life

By Margaret Oliphant 2 Dec, 2019

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Lady Car by Mrs. Margaret Oliphant, first published in 1889, is the sequel to The Ladies Lindores published some years earlier. Having survived her traumatic marriage to her bullish first husband, we now find Lady Caroline happily married to her first and only real love, Edward Beaufort. All should, therefore, be well and we presume that 'the hero and heroine live happily ever after'. As the story unfolds though we realize that all is not perfection in Carrie's new world. As the spectre of her first husband continues to haunt her through her 'black-browed children' and as her beloved Edward fails to meet her expectations, the old demons that dogged Lady Car begin to close in around her once again. Oliphant's Lady Car has attracted both positive and negative criticism - some critics reading it as an astute appraisal of the realities of the Victorian marriage where women live through their husband's achievements, others condemning it as a narrative of female passivity. Less

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