In Mrs. Oliphant's A House Divided Against Itself, family feeling is tested by secrecy, inheritance, and the painful claims of loyalty. Set against a carefully observed Victorian world, the novel follows Frances Waring, a sheltered young woman raised in secluded Bordighera by devoted Italian servants under her father's strict supervision. Practical, quiet, and absorbed in the small disciplines of domestic life, Frances is drawn from her orderly routines into a wider web of estranged relatives, moral uncertainty, and hidden grievances. As she meets the family her father has long kept at a distance, Frances is forced to navigate icy formality, sudden affection, and the bitter legacy of old separations. Advice that she should not defend her father blindly, and that advantage may depend on winning favor, unsettles the values she has always known. In a series of tense drawing-room confrontations, private wounds surface and fragile hopes for reconciliation emerge, even as scandal and illness threaten to divide the household still further. Rich in domestic realism and emotional nuance, this is a layered Victorian family drama about divided loyalties, moral courage, and the cost of keeping a house together. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.