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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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Lucy Trevor inherits after her father’s death, bound by a will that orders half the fortune given away and her year split among named kin until she comes of age. Farafield fills with suitors, Lady Randolph’s circle, the Fords at the Terrace, and five young men with aunts behind them. Fortune-hunting as comedy: money as a crowd at the door, and instructions from the grave.

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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