Miss Marjoribanks (Annotated)

Miss Marjoribanks is one of Margaret Oliphant's most accomplished domestic comedies, a subtle study of provincial society, female agency, and social ambition within the fictional town of Carlingford. Its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, returns from school determined to "be a comfort" to her widowed father, but her vocation expands into the management of drawing rooms, marriages, reputations, and ci...