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Margaret Oliphant - Miss Marjoribanks (1866)

Margaret Oliphant - Miss Marjoribanks (1866)

100 Best Scottish Books of all Time

1 Jan 2005

Fittingly for a 'heroine' of Victorian literature, Lucilla, the eponymous Miss Marjoribanks of Margaret Oliphant's novel, is an ingenious sovereign. Her sphere of influence extends only to a section of upper middle-class society in the imaginary English…