Salem Chapel (Annotated)

Salem Chapel, one of Mrs. Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford, is a penetrating Victorian novel of provincial Nonconformist life. It follows the young minister Arthur Vincent as his romantic ideals of spiritual vocation collide with chapel politics, social snobbery, and the stubborn independence of his congregation. Written with Oliphant's characteristic irony, psychological delicacy, and alertne...