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The Perpetual Curate di Margaret Oliphant
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The Perpetual Curate (originale 1864; edizione 2009)

di Margaret Oliphant

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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… (altro)
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Titolo:The Perpetual Curate
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The Perpetual Curate di Margaret Oliphant (1864)

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    Le torri di Barchester di Anthony Trollope (nessreader)
    nessreader: Oliphant's carlingford chronicles are an equivalent series to the barchester books; victorian sagas of social manouevering and parish politics. If you enjoy barsetshire, they are well worth trying. Perpetual is about high anglicanism vs lower church and like trollope spreads sympathy across opposed characters.… (altro)
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[The Perpetual Curate] is a novel that is part of Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford series. The focus here is a young curate named Frank Wentworth working in a low-paying Curate position and focused on the poorer area of Carlingford, Wharfside. He has a family with money but his father had three marriages and tons of children, and the three aunts who were hopefully going to provide him with a family living do not approve of his High Church ways. This is unfortunate since Frank Wentworth has his eye on a lovely young woman, Lucy Wodehouse, who doesn't have money to bring to a marriage. While this is going on, Frank is erroneously marked as having an inappropriate relationship with a pretty, young, lower class girl.

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. ( )
  japaul22 | Mar 13, 2022 |
It seems that Frank Wentworth, the curate of St. Roque’s, is to be a perpetual curate, unable ever to afford to marry and so his love for Lucy Wodehouse must remain undeclared. The new rector of Carlingford has taken an almost instant dislike to Frank, and he does everything in his power to make Frank miserable. Frank’s maiden aunts have a living that they could bestow on him, but Frank is too Romish for his domineering aunt Leonora’s evangelical taste. Frank unwittingly becomes the center of a scandal in Carlingford, while at the same time he’s called upon to manage a Wentworth family crisis. Through it all, Frank never loses his optimism about the future or his devotion to his duty.

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 |
This was SUCH a lovely read (far better than its prequel "Salem Chapel." ) Our eponymous hero, Frank Wentworth, the young perpetual curate, is making great strides in his parish. With a devoted young lady in the wings and a congregation who esteem him, all is going well.
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 |
This is one of Oliphant's Carlingford novels, which, IMO, are her best work. (As sole support of her family, she sometimes cranked out whatever the publishers were buying, so reader beware, but the Carlingford series has yet to disappoint.)

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.

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1 vota tealadytoo | May 31, 2016 |
The Perpetual Curate is the fourth in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford, a series of novels set in a fictional Victorian town. As with the previous books, local clergy and church matters take center stage. This time, perpetual curate Frank Wentworth takes center stage. Frank is young and idealistic and oversteps his bounds by ministering to a poor community which the Rector believes falls under his jurisdiction. Frank is also in love with Lucy Wodehouse, but his relatively low standing in the church (and commensurate low income) prevents him from acting on his feelings. And then a confluence of events threatens to drive a wedge between Frank and Lucy: a stranger comes to town, a young girl disappears, and a family crisis requires Frank's attention. Margaret Oliphant gets the reader equally tangled up in these many threads, and then gently unravels them to create a tidy and satisfying ending.

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 vota lauralkeet | Oct 19, 2015 |
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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

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