Excerpt from Miss. Marjoribanks Regency period: the technique and style as well as fire langua our novel is essentially witty from start to finish. The openi as anti-sentimental as the author of Nort/zanger Abbey could desired, though of course not directed at her targets but at Vict conventional sentiment - eg. In the course of the novel Rose says of her sister: But I am sorry to say she has not a strong se duty and 'i have always been brought up to believe that dut happiness, ' said Miss Marjoribanks with some severity - aut jokes inconceivable in Middlemarc/z. Lucilla is a Victorian heroine, large, strong, unsentimental, insubordinate to me with a hearty appetite. Who else in 1865 could habitually write thus? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.