My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror

The family dead are being dug from their chapel to fertilize the meadows. At Aunt Margaret’s quiet fireside, that outrage opens the way to a story of a mirror that may see beyond the living world.

Walter Scott’s 1828 tale moves from an old family home to the world of 1702, where Lady Jemima’s husband disappears after joining Marlborough’s army. Desperate for news, she turns to a mysterious Italian doctor who claims powers beyond the ordinary—and to the enchanted mirror he offers as a means of seeing what has become of her absent spouse. In a story steeped in old loyalties and uneasy wonder, how much can the mirror reveal, and what will its vision cost?

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