Salem Chapel

'Salem Chapel' is a historical novel by Mrs. Oliphant published in 1863. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Extract: 'With these feelings the young pastor pursued his way to see the poor woman who, according to Mrs. Brown's account, was so anxious to see the minister. He found this person, whose desire was at present shared by most of the female members of Salem without the intervention of the Devonshire Dairy, in a mean little house in the close lane dignified by the name of Back Grove Street. She was a thin, dark, vivacious-looking woman, with a face from which some forty years of energetic living had withdrawn all the colour and fulness which might once have rendered it agreeable, but which was, nevertheless, a remarkable face, not to be lightly passed over. Extreme thinness of outline and sharpness of line made the contrast between this educated countenance and the faces which had lately surrounded the young minister still more remarkable.'

Mrs. Oliphant (real name Margaret Oliphant Wilson, 1828-1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer. Her fictional works encompass 'domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural'. Oliphant wrote more than 120 works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories, and volumes of literary criticism.