Miss Marjoribanks
ISBN 9780140436303 | 512 pages | 01 Jun 1999 | Penguin Classics | 5.07 x 7.79in | 18 - AND UP
Summary of Miss Marjoribanks
Summary of Miss Marjoribanks
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An Excerpt from 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'.
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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.
'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
This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1865) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Margaret Jay. |
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Set in New York City in 1938, this is a sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Read an excerpt. Listen to a podcast.
