Miss Marjoribanks is an 1866 novel by Margaret Oliphant.
It was first published in serialised form in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865.
It follows the exploits of its heroine, Lucilla Marjoribanks, as she schemes to improve the social life of the provincial English town of Carlingford.
[1] The late nineteenth century English novelist George Gissing, who read the novel in September 1896, thought it "excellent".
[2] BBC Radio 4 produced a four-part radio adaptation first broadcast on 4 August 1992,[3] dramatized by Elizabeth Proud and featuring Elizabeth Spriggs as Margaret Oliphant and Teresa Gallagher as Lucilla Marjoribanks.