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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Title: Lilian's Inheritance

Author and Title: Hannah Murray. Lilian's Inheritance: A Novel

First Edition: London: T. C. Newby, 1867. 2 volumes, post 8vo., 21s.

Serialization: New Monthly Magazine, October 1865 to June 1866 (monthly)

Summary: A young woman becomes the governess of a girl. The governess and the girl’s father fall in love, though he has a wife locked up in secret, with the aid of an ominous serving woman. After the secret wife is revealed, the governess flees in the middle of the night. She is reunited with the father when he is free to remarry. Basically Jane Eyre in Mexico. (LP)

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References: BL; EC; NLS

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