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Novel 347: Margaret Oliphant, The Cuckoo in the Nest (1892)

January 17, 2026 David Bywaters

Charles Sillem Lidderdale, A Country Maid


An innkeeper’s daughter seeks to marry into a genteel family.


For Oliphant, see Novels 007, 008, 056, 107, 152, 205, 206 and 266.

Oliphant “has seldom, to our thinking, made a completer portrait than that of” this novel’s heroine. “Her insight into the byways of manner and modes of thought of a certain class” is “admirable” Athenaeum, September 24, 1892

The main character is “presented with such searching truthfulness and such fine dramatic realism, that the book is worthy of a place beside the most brilliant of its predecessors.” Spectator, December 3, 1892

Download this fortnight’s novel:

v.1 https://archive.org/details/Cuckoo_in_the_Nest_vol1

v.2 https://archive.org/details/Cuckoo_in_the_Nest_vol2

v.3 https://archive.org/details/Cuckoo_in_the_Nest_vol3

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