Coping with disability or dying


In general disabled or dying people in Margaret Oliphant's fiction are fully developed characters who must come to terms with their physical limitations and/or their approaching death. Each is an individual - there is no stereotyping or false sentimentality. A particularly fine portrait of someone coping with disability is that of Stephen Haldane in At His Gates - a gifted, active man whose life and sense of self are drastically altered after an illness causes permanent paralysis.


Heart and Cross
(Johnnie Harley)Novel1863
A Son of the Soil
Novel1863
The Minister's Wife
Novel1869
At His Gates
Novel1872
May
Novel1873
The Wizard's Son
(Alison Milnathort)Novel1882

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