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Miss Marjoribanks

Margaret Oliphant - Author
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Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 512 pages | ISBN 9780140436303 | 01 Jun 1999 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
Miss Marjoribanks

Q. D. Leavis declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the 'missing link' in Victorian literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and 'more entertaining, more impressive and more likeable than either'.

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men.

This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1865) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Margaret Jay. 'A tour de force … full of wit, surprises and intrigue … We can imagine Jane Austen reading Miss Marjoribanks with enjoyment and approval in the Elysian Filds'.v

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