Phoebe, Junior

Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford (also spelled Phœbe, Junior) is an 1876 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It follows the exploits of its heroine, Phoebe Beecham, as she learns the true history of her family history. This novel is the last of the six Carlingford Chronicles, and is set roughly in the early 1860s to late 1870s.[1] The theme is social status and snobbery, when earlier conventions were challenged by changes in religion and politics in Victorian society. Phoebe Junior was dramatised by BBC Radio Four in 1993.

Phoebe, Junior
Title page to 1876 edition
AuthorMargaret Oliphant
SeriesCarlingford Chronicles
PublisherHurst and Blackett
Publication date
1876
Media typePrint, 3 Volumes

Adaptations

BBC Radio 4 produced a four-part radio adaptation first broadcast on 8 May 1994,[2] dramatized by Elizabeth Proud and featuring Elizabeth Spriggs as Margaret Oliphant and Charlotte Attenborough as Phoebe, Junior.

References
  1. Elisabeth Jay makes this point in a note to the 1998 Penguin edition Miss Marjoribanks
  2. "BBC Radio4: Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant". Retrieved 2 December 2022.

Further reading
  • O'Mealy, Joseph H. (1997). "Rewriting Trollope and Yonge: Mrs. Oliphant's Phoebe Junior and the Realism Wars," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 125–138.


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