Miss Majoribanks
(Manufacturer: PENGUIN BOOKS - Part No: 0140436308 - SKU: 2255703)

The esteemed English critic Q. D. Leavis declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the missing link in nineteenth-century literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and more entertaining, more impressive, and more likeable than either. Miss Marjoribanks is perhaps the most famous novel in The Chronicles of Carlingford -- Oliphant's popular series of short stories and novels chronicling the middle-class mores of a fictional English provincial town. The nove ...Read More (specification)