Margaret Oliphant, Miss Marjoribanks

Anne Reus (Technische Universität Dresden)

Ed. by Grace Moore, University of Otago
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.07: English Writing and Culture of the Victorian Period, 1837-1901.
Vol. editors: Gillian Fenwick (University of Toronto), Grace Moore (University of Otago)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1866

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

Miss Marjoribanks (1866) is the third, and arguably most popular, novel of Margaret Oliphant’s Carlingford series. It recounts how Lucilla Marjoribanks -- returned to her widowed father from school -- sets out to revolutionize fashionable society in the provincial town of Carlingford by means of her Thursday Evenings (dress code: white frocks, high), and ends ten years later with her marriage to her cousin Tom.

The novel has been read as a comment on women’s lives, careers and work by critics such as Elisabeth Jay, Linda Peterson and Andrea Kaston Tange: Lucilla thrives on banal conventionalities and excels at performing femininity while getting her way. Her Thursday Evenings, comfortable dinners, and the …

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Citation: Reus, Anne. "Miss Marjoribanks". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 May 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=33565, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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