Fr. 24.90

Miss Marjoribanks

English · Paperback / Softback

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From the moment of her mother's death, Lucilla Marjoriebanks knows her vocation - a conviction based on the influence of morally uplifting novels and the 'sublime confidence in herself is the first necessity to a woman on a mission'. The usurping of Dr. Marjoriebanks as master of his own table and the assuaging of Nancy, his formidable housekeeper, are but small steps in Lucilla's scheme, for she intends nothing less than the transformation of Carlingford society. Lucilla's 'evenings' become the talk fo this quiet country town: not only are they an essential source of gossip and entertainment for old friends and neighbours of Grange Lane, but they are also the setting for some of Lucilla's most startling accomplishments. For it is on these occasions, under the watchful eye and guidance of this magnificent young woman, that reputations are made and lost and romances are pursued and undone . . .

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Authors Margaret Oliphant, Oliphant Margaret
Publisher Virago Press Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 26.11.2004
 
EAN 9781844082087
ISBN 978-1-84408-208-7
No. of pages 496
Dimensions 127 mm x 203 mm x 28 mm
Series VMC
Virago Modern Classics
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature
Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945

FICTION / General, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary

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