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The Greatest Heiress

Author
Margaret Oliphant
Language
English
Length
444 pages
ISBN
9781836103653
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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The Greatest Heiress by Margaret Oliphant follows Lucy Trevor, a wealthy young woman living in a quiet country town under the watchful eye of her controlling father. Surrounded by relatives and expectations tied to her fortune, Lucy must navigate family tensions, independence, and social pressures as her future and identity become shaped by wealth and duty.

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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