Marion Fay

Published in 1882, this novel concerns two attachments that cut across rank in late-Victorian London. Lord Hampstead, republican-minded son of the Marquis of Kingsbury, falls in love with Marion Fay, the daughter of a Quaker clerk in Holloway; she returns his love but believes she is marked for an early death. His sister Lady Frances wants to marry George Roden, a Post Office clerk whose parentage later becomes a matter of an Italian title. The Marchioness, stepmother to the pair, works to block both matches. The book is a domestic political novel about class, health, and the marriage of aristocrats to the professional poor.

Quarter bound in blue series binding, pale grey paper boards with the border in blue. Pale grey endleaves. Blue slipcase.