The Rector and The Doctor's Family

by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)

<p>When the stories that became the <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/chronicles-of-carlingford">Chronicles of Carlingford</a> series first appeared anonymously, speculation had it that they were the work of <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/george-eliot">George Eliot</a>. The connection was a natural one. Only a few years earlier, Eliot’s <i>Scenes of Clerical Life</i> had appeared in <i>Blackwood’s Magazine</i>.