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She who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission
 
Lucilla Marjoribanks is determined to look after her widowed father and become 'the sunshine of his life' whether he likes it or not. Once installed back at home and presiding over her father's drawing room, she launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select evening parties. Lucilla is optimistic, resourceful and completely without self-doubt, bt will her indomitable nature diminish her marriage prospects? Will she marry the wrong man to save herself from eternal spinsterhood? With its superbly flawed heroine, is Marjoribanks (1866) is a wonderfully comic depiction of the conventions and proprieties that rule a vacuous society.
 
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Miss Marjoribanks Penguin Classics

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    A Paperback / softback by Margaret Oliphant, Elisabeth Jay, Elisabeth Jay

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/10/1998
      ISBN13: 9780140436303, 978-0140436303
      ISBN10: 0140436308

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      She who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission
       
      Lucilla Marjoribanks is determined to look after her widowed father and become 'the sunshine of his life' whether he likes it or not. Once installed back at home and presiding over her father's drawing room, she launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select evening parties. Lucilla is optimistic, resourceful and completely without self-doubt, bt will her indomitable nature diminish her marriage prospects? Will she marry the wrong man to save herself from eternal spinsterhood? With its superbly flawed heroine, is Marjoribanks (1866) is a wonderfully comic depiction of the conventions and proprieties that rule a vacuous society.
       
      For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global books

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