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	Reviews of 'Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)'
		Miss Lucilla Marjoribanks comes home from school determined to be a comfort to dear papa and sets the good doctor and the entire town on their ears, with her brilliant manipulations.
		The scene in which Miss Marjoribanks figuratively usurps her father's role as patriarch of the house by appropriating his place at the breakfast table is hilarious.
		The main character of Miss Marjoribanks is not intended to "grow" or "develop"--part of the pleasure of her characterization and her story is in witnessing how her single-minded mania as social director of her community compells her to overcome the obstacles thrown in her way by the novel's narrative.
	www.usingenglish.com /amazon/us/reviews/0140436308.html (699 words)

	Abaxial Cameras :: Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)
		The character of Miss Marjoribanks (that's pronounced "Marchbanks") is used by Oliphant both as a vehicle for social satire in the Victorian community and as an instrument to examine female modes of power in the Victorian home.
		The scene in which Miss Marjoribanks figuratively usurps her father's role as patriarch of the house by appropriating his place at the breakfast table is hilarious.
		The main character of Miss Marjoribanks is not intended to "grow" or "develop"--part of the pleasure of her characterization and her story is in witnessing how her single-minded mania as social director of her community compells her to overcome the obstacles thrown in her way by the novel's narrative.
	www.abaxial.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0140436308 (623 words)

	Amazon.com: Miss Marjoribanks (Classic Books on Cassettes Collection): Books: Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant,Flo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The novel's heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, returns home to tend her widowed father and soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties.
		Determined to show everyone an entertaining time (ostensibly "to be a comfort to dear Papa," even though her father tends to withdraw entirely from her noisy gatherings), the self-centered but always ingenious Lucilla engineers social triumph after social triumph in this very amusing mid-Victorian novel.
		"Miss Marjoribanks" is set up in a mock epic style following the social conquering of Carlingford by Lucilla Marjoribanks when returns to her hometown after years in school and on the Grand Tour.
	www.amazon.com /Marjoribanks-Classic-Books-Cassettes-Collection/dp/1556857489 (1165 words)

	Watches-Miss Marjoribanks -Penguin Classics- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and temptations of London high society belies the challenges it poses to the conventions of courtship, the dependence of women, and the limitations of domesticity.
		When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior.
		"Miss Marjoribanks" is set up in a mock epic style following the social conquering of Carlingford by Lucilla Marjoribanks when returns to her hometown after years in school and on the Grand Tour.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_a_simple_story_oxfor-019283598X.htm (1013 words)

	Semicolon » Margaret Oliphant
		When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.” I don’t know which of her novels this one comes from, but I definitely agree with the sentiment.
		Miss Marjoribanks is OK but I don’t think it’s her best.
		There are others I also prefer to Miss Marjoribanks which is still, however, a good book.
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	chicklit: book bundle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Although Miss Marjoribanks is the fifth in the series, it is the most interesting and funniest of the novels, and it's also the only one in print, in a 1999 Penguin Classics edition.
		In Miss Marjoribanks, the eponymous young Lucilla Marjoribanks returns from school determined to "be a comfort to her dear papa" (a widower) and to take charge of social life in the provincial town of Carlingford.
		This conviction of the importance and value of her own proceedings made Lucilla, as she grew older, a copious and amusing conversationalist—a rank which few people who are indifferent to, or do not believe in, themselves can attain to.
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	The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) - Hotel Resource Book Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The issues seem surprisingly fresh and almost contemporary, the characters are unforgettable, and the travels and trials of "Miss Ellis" offer glimpses into many different aspects of society in England and in France during the time period of the French Revolution.
		The "Incognita" is a fascinating character who moves through English society as a subordinate to the rich and cruel society folk with whom she is forced by circumstances to live.
		"Miss Ellis endures the slings and arrows of outrageous fortunate to triumph over her enemies at last....
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	Miss Marjoribanks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Miss Marjoribanks is an 1866 novel by Margaret Oliphant.
		It follows the exploits of its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, as she schemes to improve the social life of the provincial English town of Carlingford.
		This page was last modified 23:47, 6 March 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miss_Marjoribanks (59 words)

	Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) by Margaret Oliphant, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0140436308 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
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	Lit.Org - Writers resources, epublishing, zines, stories, authors, interviews, chat, links and more!
		Austen must have recognized the genius of this late-18th Century female writer, and whether or not she ever matched Burney's multi-faceted quality is still an open question.
		On the surface, this is the tale of Miss Cecilia Beverley, a young, beautiful and wealthy heiress looking for the suitable match - hardly an original theme.
		Miss Beverley's path to love and marriage winds its way through a series of circumstances, most of which are engendered by her agenda-driven acquaintances, guardians, friends and false-friends.
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	Abstracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This paper contends that Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks is a self- conscious investigation of middle-class identity, which in this novel is delimited by characters who originate in the lower middle classes.
		The problematic figures in the novel all hail from the ranks of the lower middle classes, and their success in Carlingford depends on their ability to mimic the standards of middle-class decorum.
		In fact, mimicry and imitation are key conceptual terms in the novel because "copying" itself emerges in Miss Marjoribanks as a fundamental component of the middle-class character.
	www.sla.purdue.edu /academic/engl/navsa/Conferences/2003/abstracts/zlotnick.html (131 words)

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		Miss Marjoribanks - The News Show - A sometimes irreverent, but always..
		The esteemed English critic Q. 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.
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	Miss Marjoribanks - Margaret Oliphant - Penguin UK
		Q. Leavis declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the 'missing link' in Victorian literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and 'more entertaining, more impressive and more likeable than either'.
		Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties.
		This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1865) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Margaret Jay.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140436303,00.html (149 words)

	Abaxial Cameras :: The Female Quixote or the Adventures of Arabella (Oxford World's Classics)
		But not only are the Amazon reviewers missing the novels point, but also the person whom introduces the book in this edition.
		Be what we see as a Coquette, in Miss Glanville, excepting, unhappy marriage for money, and what society hands them, also is the case with Miss Groves, she has been impregnated twice, and in no inconvience to the man she hopes to marry, which will probrably be an unhappy one as well.
		She has chosen to rebel against society, and she is forced to live life in hiding.
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	The List: Vote for your Best Scottish Book of all time
		Fittingly for a 'heroine' of Victorian literature, Lucilla, the eponymous Miss Marjoribanks of Margaret Oliphant's novel, is an ingenious sovereign.
		You're never sure whether Lucilla is really to be pitied, applauded or reproached in the manner of Thackeray's Becky Sharp, for it is indeed the 19th century English tradition to which Miss Marjoribanks belongs.
		Oliphant's family left Scotland when she was only ten, and most of her fiction is set in the south.
	www.list.co.uk /bestbooks/b58.html (308 words)

	ScotsteXt! Roughs
		And who do you think she is? Jeanie Macgregor that was cook to the Miss Marjoribanks next door for seven year, before she went back to Glasgow!
		We had an improvin' conversation about pancakes, &c.; there's a deal to be learnt from foreigners: and Jeanie and me had a haven about the Miss Marjoribanks and the Edinburgh folk.
		She has got a good down-sittin', and a kind man. He told me on the road home that his wife was a sparefu' woman, meanin' "savin'" no doubt: she was aye that.
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	chicklit: book bundle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She outlived all of her children (Miss Marjoribanks was written in the year following the death of her daughter) and died at the age of 69, having outlived the period of her works' popularity as well.
		To be sure, there were always one or two independent spirits who revolted; but for the crowd, it soon became impressed with a profound belief in the creed which Miss Marjoribanks supported so firmly.
		This conviction of the importance and value of her own proceedings made Lucilla, as she grew older, a copious and amusing conversationalist--a rank which few people who are indifferent to, or do not believe in, themselves can attain to.
	www.chicklit.com /bundle/bundle4_page3.html (702 words)

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		This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1866) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Elisabeth Jay.
		Seller's Description: Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr. Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties.
		Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics) Penguin Classics; Edition: New ISBN 140436308 Date June 01, 1999 Room 3/9/2/K
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	Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant (Wilson) on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She was widowed at the age of 31 and subsequently supported her own three children and her brother and his family.
		Astonishingly prolific, she wrote many novels, including a series about life in a Scottish village called Chronicles of Carlingford (1863-76); the best novels in the series were Salem Chapel and Miss Marjoribanks.
		She wrote guidebooks; semihistorical works, such as The Makers of Modern Rome (1895); and biographies of Sheridan (1883) and her cousin Laurence Oliphant (1891), among others.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/OliphntM1.asp (326 words)

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		Description: Thirkell’s last, unfinished novel, completed by her close friend C. Lejeune, features a host of new and old friends from the author’s beloved Barsetshire.
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	British Criminology Conferences, Vol. 1 1998: True Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		So, while the incompetent or the competent but atypical police officer is a commonplace of detective fiction, in popular criminology the police detective takes centre stage.
		And not only is there no Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple, there is also no traffic cop or beat bobby.
		Marjoribanks, E. The Life of Sir Edward Marshall Hall.
	www.britsoccrim.org /bccsp/vol01/VOL01_13.HTM (10848 words)

	MISS MARJORIBANKS - Margaret Oliphant - Penguin Group (USA)
		MISS MARJORIBANKS - Margaret Oliphant - Penguin Group (USA)
		Leavis declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the 'missing link' in Victorian literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and 'more entertaining, more impressive and more likeable than either'.
		This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1865) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Margaret Jay.
	www.penguinputnam.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140436308,00.html (137 words)

	Find in a Library: "There was always something better which she might have done" : performativity and ...
		Find in a Library: "There was always something better which she might have done" : performativity and Victorian gender ideology in East Lynne, Miss Marjoribanks and Middlemarch
		"There was always something better which she might have done" : performativity and Victorian gender ideology in East Lynne, Miss Marjoribanks and Middlemarch
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	English A-230
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		Late arrivals interrupt the work in progress, may cause you to miss important information, and irritate the instructor.
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	Miss Marjoribanks - By: Mrs. Oliphant - Christianbook.com
		Thus wrote Q.D. Leavis, who 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'.
		This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Majoribanks (1866) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Elisabeth Jay.
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		MISS MARJORIBANKS - Margaret Oliphant - Penguin Books
		Q. Leavis declared Margaret Oliphant's heroine Lucilla to be the 'missing link' in Victorian literature between Jane Austen's Emma and George Eliot's Dorothea Brooke, and 'more entertaining, more impressive and more likeable than either'.
		Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties.
	www.penguin.ca:8000 /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0140436308,00.html (147 words)

	Black History Review: Books : Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)
		Black History Review: Books : Miss Marjoribanks (Penguin Classics)
		This must be one of the funniest books I've ever read--I hadn't laughed out loud like this since Catch-22.
		I enjoyed this book much more than I expected.
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		Compiled by Jessie F. Horsburgh MARRIAGE PROCLAMATIONS 1821-38, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, SCOTLAND (NRH 685/1) Walter Horsburgh W S of Pitt of St Stephen's Parish & Miss Elizabeth Murray daughter of the Rev Andrew Murray Auchterderran Fife.
		Robert Horsburgh accountant residing No 15 London Street St Mary's Parish & Miss Mary Marjoribanks 2nd daughter of Mr Alexander Marjoribanks Esq of Marjoribanks Midlothian & of Ballaidie Bathgate in the County of Linlithgow presumably residing in No 14 Carlton Street St Cuthberts Parish no objections.
		Proclaimed 22nd April 1838 James Horsburgh spirit dealer residing in Curriemuirend Parish of Colinton & Margaret Henderson daughter of William Henderson spirit dealer residing at No 11 Grassmarket New Greyfriar's Parish have been three times proclaimed and no objections offered.
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