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Bezig met laden... The Perpetual Curate (1864)door Margaret Oliphant
  
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 japaul22 | Mar 13, 2022 |   Carlingford’s residents are by now familiar to readers of the previous stories and novels, and Frank and Lucy are some of its most likable citizens. There’s enough humor throughout that it wouldn’t be wrong to describe it as a romantic comedy. The characterizations are well-drawn, with echoes of both Austen and Dickens. Its primary flaw is in the pacing, with a suspenseful plot that line resolves earlier than it should. (  ) cbl_tn | Feb 18, 2022 | But clouds are on the horizon...a new Rector finding fault, critical aunts, an unwanted admirer, and an older brother contemplating leaving his own career in the church to become a Catholic... And as mysterious "black sheep" relatives show up, and someone goes missing, there are many difficulties to bear. Very good characterization, especially of the quietly determined Rector's wife,whose ability to demolish bumptious visitors with a pithy comment has to be a role model for us all. Keeps you reading to the last page. A bit of Victorian escapism. (  ) starbox | Feb 27, 2021 | Our titular hero is a young, very good, very earnest, somewhat humorless curate in the Victorian town of Carlingford. He is a perpetual curate, which is a rather odd position in that he is responsible for a sort of mission" church on the poor side of town, and does not directly report to the rector of the regular C of E parish in town. The prior rectors were elderly and somewhat indolent and happy to leave the work among the poor to him. But there is a new, younger rector in town, and our boy gets off on the wrong foot by going on in his autonomous fashion without consulting the new rector about what he's doing in what the rector sees as his town. While basically quite admirable, our young man manages to mildly offend just about everyone, Whefrom his low hurch aunt who has a family living in her gift, to the rector, to his parish clerk, etc. The only one solidly in his corner is the pretty young parish worker who is as idealistic, earnest and naive as he is. When he is caught in the middle of a village scandal, he doesn't quite understand that his virtue eill not quite recommend him as much ss warm regard might have done. He has some maturing to do, and does it nicely. Oliphant in some ways reminds me of Austen. Being of the Victorian rather than Regency era, the style and sensibilities are very different. But each has a fine eye for the intricacies of small town society and domestic life and writes of them with gentle irony. All in all, a very enjoyable read. posted less than 1 minute ago. ( edit )" (  )1  tealadytoo | May 31, 2016 | Oliphant paints a vivid picture of life in Carlingford, with well-drawn characters. There's also a great deal of quiet humor; in this book the Rector's wife, while playing a pivotal role in the story, also provides amusement through obsessive tending to her ferns, her private thoughts about her husband, and her quiet resignation to living in a rectory so poorly decorated by her predecessor. I enjoyed this book very much and look forward to the remaining two in the series. ( )3 lauralkeet | Oct 19, 2015 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Carlingford is, as is well known, essentially a quiet place. There is no trade in the town, properly so called. To be sure, there are two or three small counting-houses at the other end of George Street, in that ambitious pile called Gresham Chambers; but the owners of these places of business live, as a general rule, in villas, either detached or semi-detached, in the North-end, the new quarter, which, as everybody knows, is a region totally unrepresented in society. In Carlingford proper there is no trade, no manufactures, no anything in particular, except very pleasant parties and a superior class of people - a very superior class of people, indeed, to anything one expects to meet with in a country town, which is not even a county town, nor the seat of any particular interest. It is the boast of the place that it has no particular interest - not even a public school: for no reason in the world but because they like it, have so many nice people collected together in those pretty houses in Grange Lane - which is, of course, a very much higher tribute to the town than if any special inducement had led them there Carlingford is, as is well known, essentially a quiet place. There is no trade in the town, properly so called. To be sure, there are two or three small counting-houses at the other end of George Street, in that ambitious pile called Gresham Chambers; but the owners of these places of business live, as a general rule, in villas, either detached or semi-detached, in the North-end, the new quarter, which, as everybody knows, is a region totally unrepresented in society. In Carlingford proper there is no trade, no manufactures, no anything in particular, except very pleasant parties and a superior class of people - a very superior class of people, indeed, to anything one expects to meet with in a country town, which is not even a county town, nor the seat of any particular interest. It is the boast of the place that it has no particular interest - not even a public school: for no reason in the world but because they like it, have so many nice people collected together in those pretty houses in Grange Lane - which is, of course, a very much higher tribute to the town than if any special inducement had led them there Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This Victorian novel rolls along well. The plot and characters are entertaining and we get a glimpse of church politics of the time and a bit of the class divide as well. I enjoyed this and think Oliphant has every right to be considered with the other more well-known Victorian authors of the time. (