Margaret Wilson: 69 books

MAJOR OCHTERLONY had been very fidgety after the coming in of the mail. He was very often so, as all his friends were aware, and nobody so much as Mary, his wife, who was herself, on ordinary occasions, of an admirable composure. But the arrival of the mail, which is so welcome an event at an Indian...

“Ye’ll no ken, Jenny, if Miss Menie’s in?” “And what for should I no ken?” exclaimed the hot and impatient Jenny Durward, sole servant, housekeeper, and self-constituted guardian of Mrs. Laurie of Burnside, and her young fatherless daughter. “Do ye think ony ane comes or gangs in the...

Imagine to yourselves such a young family, all in the very heyday of life, parents and children alike. It is true that Mrs. Kingsward was something of an invalid, but nobody believed that her illness was anything very serious, only a reason why she should be taken abroad, to one place after another,...

There were very peculiar conditions attached to the great fortune, but to these for the moment he paid very little heed, considering them as fantastic follies not worth thinking about, which were never likely to become difficulties in his way. The advantage he derived from the marriage was enormous....

At the age of thirty-one years old, Kate Shea did not have a man of her own. She was so desperate for a man no matter the odds, but not even the worst of men in her town made advances towards her. She spent her idle moments watching her mobile phone and checking her emails, hoping that any man could...

She was very old, and therefore it was very hard for her to make up her mind to die. I am aware that this is not at all the general view, but that it is believed, as old age must be near death, that it prepares the soul for that inevitable event. It is not so, however, in many cases. In youth we are...

I WAS going home from the village, and it was an autumn evening, just after sunset, when every crop was cut and housed in our level country, and when the fields of stubble and browned grass had nothing on them, except here and there, a tree. They say our bare flats, in Cambridgeshire, are neither picturesque,...

Kelly Simons is a pretty woman who has had her heart broken by the people she called her boyfriends. She lived and took care of her late father’s farm in Texas; she did not entertain any relationships with any of the people in that town no matter how hard they tried. She finally meets Jose...

Broomhilda Shultz was an beautiful lady who struggled through club dancing to rise to the top but then she is met with certain difficulties to get to where she wants to because she had not acquired the required qualifications.Then she is determined to get to the top and the only way that presents...

My desire for love making gradually grew worse as we were in the university so much that we were tempted to think that I was an addict. I did not know what to do with myself at times, but I was afraid to confide in any other person, apart from my boyfriend Harris, who was ready to satisfy my desires.

She was a tidy fresh old woman, with cheeks of a russet colour, half brown half red, yet soft, despite all their wrinkles—cheeks that children laid their little faces up to without feeling any difference of texture; and eyes which had stolen back during these years deeper into their sockets, but...

Omar Mbinglo, 27 years old, fair skinned and handsome but with a good body build had just returned from overseas. He had been there for six years and because his father was getting old, he asked that he come back home and be acquainted with palace duties. They lived in the Nso kingdom, Bui Division of...