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The Greatest Heiress

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
16 hours 22 minutes
ISBN
9781836103134
Published
30 March 2026
Imprint
Sovereign
  • heiress
  • wealth and inheritance
  • family dynamics
  • social class
  • controlling parent
  • domestic life
  • rural setting
  • independence
  • societal expectations
  • coming of age

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Description

Lucy Trevor’s father is gone, and his will still rules: half the fortune away, the year divided among relations, and a quiet town suddenly thick with proposals. Lady Randolph, the Fords, and young men steered by aunts turn inheritance into sport. Spoken comedy of rank: an heiress as the problem the neighbourhood tries to marry.

Author

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was a Scottish novelist who wrote as if the rent depended on it — because it often did. Widowed young, she supported a large household with novels, biographies, reviews, and stories of the seen and unseen, becoming one of the Victorian age's most tireless professionals. Domestic realism, historical fiction, and ghostly tales all came from the same steady pen.

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