Title:
Miss Marjoribanks
Author:
Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897
ISBN:
9780140436303
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Penguin Books, 1998.
Physical Description:
xxxix, 546 pages ; 20 cm.
Series:
Penguin classics
Contents:
Appendix 1. Miss Marjoribanks in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine -- Appendix 2. Variants between serial and first three-volume edition.
Abstract:
"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." -- back cover.
"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."--Back cover.
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