The Ladies Lindores - Vol. 1(of 3)
The Ladies Lindores - Vol. 1(of 3)
By Margaret Oliphant
2 Dec, 2019
Oliphant's The Ladies Lindores, serialized in 1882 and published in full form in 1883 by the House of Blackwood, explores the complex and problematic area of male and female relationships. Written later in her literary career, this three-decker novel
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Oliphant's The Ladies Lindores, serialized in 1882 and published in full form in 1883 by the House of Blackwood, explores the complex and problematic area of male and female relationships. Written later in her literary career, this three-decker novel particularly illustrates Oliphant's thinking on the married state as it affected Victorian upper-middle-class women. The Lindores women, Lady Mary Lindores, Lady Caroline 'Carry' Lindores, and Lady Edith Lindores each respectively represent the shifting philosophies and cultural mores of their time. When status and riches unexpectedly come to their family each one experiences a curtailment of their freedom which they either ultimately bow down to or challenge. Less