The Perpetual Curate (Annotated)

The Perpetual Curate, one of Mrs. Oliphant's celebrated Chronicles of Carlingford, is a richly textured Victorian novel of provincial life, ecclesiastical tension, and moral testing. Its central figure, the Reverend Frank Wentworth, a High Church curate of refinement and ambition, must navigate parish rivalries, family expectations, romantic uncertainty, and a damaging cloud of suspicion. Oliphant...