This book collects two unrelated works by Margaret Oliphant: The Two Marys (1872) and Grove Road, Hampstead (1880). This version of The Two Marys contains only the first two parts of the four parts originally published in Macmillan Magazine. (Parts 3 and 4 continue the story of the elder Mary.) The complete four-part version is also available on Internet Archive. For more information on the story and its publishing history, go to www.oliphantfiction.com > All Fiction > The Two Marys.