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Miss Marjoribanks / Mrs. Oliphant ; with a new introd. by Penelope Fitzgerald.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PR5113 .M5 1989
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897.
- Series:
- Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897. Chronicles of Carlingford.
- Virago classics
- Chronicles of Carlingford
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--England--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Genre:
- Bildungsromans.
- Romance fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 499 p. ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books - Virago Press, 1989.
- Summary:
- "Lucilla Marjoribanks is determined to look after her widowed father and become 'the sunshine of his life' whether he likes it or not. Once installed back at home and presiding over her father's drawing room, she launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select evening parties. Lucilla is optimistic, resourceful, and completely without self-doubt, but will her indomitable nature diminish her marriage prospects? Will she marry the wrong man to save herself from eternal spinsterhood? With its superbly flawed heroine, Miss Marjoribanks (1866) is a wonderfully comic depiction of the conventions and proprieties that rule a vacuous society."-- different edition.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1866.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: VSA, 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0140161899
- OCLC:
- 20127538
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