Miss Marjoribanks
Margaret Oliphant, My Old Classics, My Old Classics
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Miss Marjoribanks
Margaret Oliphant, My Old Classics, My Old Classics
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Miss Marjoribanks by Margaret Oliphant - is an 1866 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in serialised form in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865. It follows the exploits of its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, as she schemes to improve the social life of the provincial English town of Carlingford. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel in September 1896, thought it "excellent".Miss Lucilla Marjoribanks (Pronounced the way it is spelt; late in the novel she tells her cousin that it was originally pronounced March-Banks) - The heroine of the story. She ostensibly aspires to make her papa happy and finds the idea of courting to be unimportant at this moment in her life.Dr. Marjoribanks - Lucilla's father. He sent her back to boarding school after her invalid mother's funeral, because she was only 15 and he was quite self-sufficient. When she returned, after having done a European tour, she takes charge of the household. He admires the way she has outwitted him and is proud of her success in society and is amused to see how she deals with minor setbacks.