Miss Marjoribanks
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers who enjoy Victorian English small-town life
- Researchers of nineteenth-century women's writing and women's social roles
- Literary readers who prefer slow-paced group portraits and an ironic tone
- Those who need public-domain English originals for course selections or reading-group discussion
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking strong plots, fast pacing, or suspenseful twists
- Readers wholly unfamiliar with nineteenth-century English social etiquette who are unwilling to fill in the background
- Readers who want explicit conclusions of social critique rather than subtle presentation
Reading tips
- Read a chapter or two first to get a feel for the narrator's ironic tone, then decide whether to read the whole book.
- Jot down the main characters and their neighborhood relations; there is a large cast, and organizing them makes it easier to enter the book.
- Pay attention to how the heroine manages social occasions and read the details as material on period customs.
- If the English is hard going, consult a reliable translation or introduction first to learn about Victorian small-town social life.
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About the author
Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, 1828–1897) was a prolific Scottish novelist, historical writer and biographer of the Victorian era. Born in Wallyford, she gained fame in 1849 with Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. In 1852 she married her cousin Frank Oliphant; widowed in 1859, she supported her children by her pen and published more than a hundred works in her lifetime. The library holds 90 of her works, including the Carlingford Chronicles, Salem Chapel, Miss Marjoribanks, supernatural tales, Hester, Kirsteen and the autobiography The Days of My Life. She is known for her delicate, humorous portrayals of small-town life and for her historical and biographical writing, and stands as a representative professional woman writer of the Victorian period.
