HESTER (Vol. 1-3) (Annotated)

Published in 1883 as a three-volume novel, Hester is one of Margaret Oliphant's most searching studies of family, money, and female power within the Victorian domestic world. Centred on Hester Vernon, a spirited young woman drawn into the orbit of the Vernon banking family, the novel explores inheritance, social dependence, thwarted affection, and the moral ambiguities of commerce. Oliphant's styl...