Description
Elinor Dennistoun is poised to enter marriage with the Honorable Phil Compton, yet the people who love her see what she cannot: a notorious gambler whose charm masks danger. When Elinor chooses him anyway, she is forced to confront the collision between duty and desire in a tightly governed Victorian world, where a woman’s choices are treated as both moral and public property. As her life unfolds, the novel probes the institutional nature of marriage—questioning whether love, respectability, and personal autonomy can ever truly coexist on unequal terms. With Margaret Oliphant’s keen social insight and sharply observed character work, this full-length story blends domestic realism with a searching critique of the costs of willfulness and the limits of second chances.
Available Editions
paperback
tredition Verlag
Published Jan 1, 2012
424 pages
ISBN: 9783847225782
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Details
First Published
1891
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Marriage of Elinor by Margaret Oliphant.