Margaret Oliphant 
Miss Marjoribanks [EPUB ebook] 

Miss Marjoribanks is an 1866 novel by
Margaret Oliphant . It was first published in serialised form in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865. It follows the exploits of its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, as she schemes to improve the social life of the provincial English town of Carlingford. The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel in September 1896, thought it ‘excellent’.
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover ‘domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural’.