Phoebe, Junior (Annotated)

Phoebe, Junior, the final novel in Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford, is a keenly observed comedy of manners centered on Phoebe Beecham, a clever, socially adaptable young Nonconformist woman navigating provincial respectability, family embarrassment, and romantic calculation. Written in Oliphant's lucid, ironic, and psychologically attentive style, the novel examines class mobility, r...