Salem Chapel (Hardcover)

from lauralkeet

When Arthur Vincent assumes his post as Carlingford's new Nonconformist minister, he runs the usual gauntlet of parishioners testing his mettle. Some relationships are cordial, such as that with Tozer the butterman, or the needlewoman Mrs Hilyard. Others are more fractious. And then there's the y...

from lauralkeet

When Arthur Vincent assumes his post as Carlingford's new Nonconformist minister, he runs the usual gauntlet of parishioners testing his mettle. Some relationships are cordial, such as that with Tozer the butterman, or the needlewoman Mrs Hilyard. Others are more fractious. And then there's the y...

from eowynfaramir

I greatly enjoyed reading this novel. Margaret Oliphant is a very talented 19th-century author; she takes joy in delineating the intricacies of town and village life in England. I highly recommend this novel if you like novelists like Jane Austen or Anthony Trollope, and would like to introduce y...

from starbox

My, this was turgid. And I LIKE Victorian melodrama and ENJOYED the previoius volume of Carlingford Cgromicles. And Mrs Oliphant can write; and does a pretty good job of evoking characters. But, by golly, this was AWFUL! Arthur Vincent - a young Nonconformist pastor, of respectable but middling b...