- Young women, Fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
<p>When Dr. Marjoribanks’s wife dies, his teenage daughter makes it her purpose in life “to be a comfort to dear papa.” At least, Lucilla thinks, ten years of such devotion might suffice, by which time she might have begun to “go off.”
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- warmbleak
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Margaret Oliphant
- First published
- 1866
- Pages
- 452
- Publisher
- Bibliotech Press, White Press, Chatto & Windus (Zodiac P.)
- Editions
- 44
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780344365867
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A Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural" (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oliphant>Wikipedia</a>).
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