# Margaret Oliphant: Miss Marjoribanks, Phoebe Junior and Hester

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- Authors: [Margaret Oliphant](https://www.bookquiver.com/margaret-oliphant), [Kate Clanchy](https://www.bookquiver.com/kate-clanchy), [Zena Foster](https://www.bookquiver.com/zena-foster), [Elizabeth L. Proud](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-l-proud)
- Publisher: bbc_digital_audio
- Medium: audio
- Length: 9 h 4 min
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Spriggs, Teresa Gallagher, Peter Jeffrey, Penelope Wilton, Lyndsey Marshall
- ISBN: 978-15-2912-772-0
- Published: 2020-06-18
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook · 9 h 4 min

## Description

Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant – plus an episode of Reading Aloud , with extracts from her autobiography Sometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of her best-loved works, brimming with dry wit, perceptive irony and flawed but fascinating heroines. Miss Marjoribanks Lucilla Marjoribanks, a large and determined girl, returns from school with two resolves – to comfort her recently widowed father and to revolutionise society. She becomes the doyenne of Carlingford’s social circle with her Thursday soirees – but her plans are disrupted by her friends’ romances, a new arrival, the solving of a mystery and a wedding… Starring Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant and Teresa Gallagher as Lucilla. Phoebe Junior Phoebe Beecham has met Clarence Copperhead at a Ball in London. His wealthy father disapproves of her, and she fortuitously leaves London to visit her sick Grandmother in Carlingford. But a shock awaits her on arrival... Starring Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Oliphant and Charlotte Attenborough as Phoebe Junior. Hester In this deliciously sardonic tale of credit and discredit, a young woman in a 19th Century Cheshire town, having been snubbed and discarded in marriage, does something truly radical. When the family bank is in danger, she pledges her private fortune to save it – but insists on running it herself, as a single woman, in defiance of all convention. Starring Penelope Wilton as Margaret Oliphant and Lyndsey Marshal as Hester Vernon. Also included is a bonus episode of Reading Aloud , in which Gudrun Ure reads from Mrs Oliphant’s autobiography, shining a light on the tragic life of the acclaimed Scottish novelist.