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Review:
"A relatively unknown masterpiece" The Times "Magdalen, a woman who resists the Victorian idea of the angel in the house and proves to be unscrupulous in her fight for survival against poverty and prejudice, employing disguise and deceit to win back what she believes is rightfully hers" Observer "Dizzyingly readable, with a feminist anti-heroine up to all sorts of deception and skulduggery, cheered along by the reader every step of the way" Mail on Sunday "Two dispossessed sisters fight for their inheritance, the narrative snaking compellingly around Victorian Britain" Sunday Times "Collins explores the iniquity of Victorian morality by damning the future of his resourceful heroine at an early stage with the discovery of her own illegitimacy. Deprived of her inheritance and even her name, Magdalen Vanstone sets out with frightening courage to reestablish her fortune and reputation. The ingenuity and guile she employs to achieve her end makes her a rare figure in Victorian literature and one of Collins' most subversive characters" The Times
Synopsis:
Published in 1863. A close friend of Charles Dickens, Collins is one of the most readable of the Victorian novelists, and some critics credit him with the invention of Sensation/Detective novel. Originally serialized in Dickens's second weekly journal, "All the Year Round", "No Name" tells the story in which a young woman learns that she and her sister are illegitimate, and penniless after the death of their father, but starts her countermove to regain her inheritance.
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- PublisherKessinger Publishing Co
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1417908440
- ISBN 13 9781417908448
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
- IllustratorMcLenan John
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