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No name

Book • 1870
No Name follows the Vanstone sisters, Norah and Magdalen, who discover after their parents' sudden deaths that they are illegitimate and thus stripped of their inheritance by their uncle Michael Vanstone.

While Norah accepts her fate, the spirited Magdalen embarks on a daring scheme involving deception and false identities to reclaim her family's fortune, aided by the opportunistic Captain Wragge.

The novel critiques Victorian legal injustices towards women and illegitimate children, blending suspense, social commentary, and intricate plotting.

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Dominic Sandbrook
as one of Wilkie Collins's other sensation novels following The Woman in White.
13. The Woman In White: Victorians, Sensation, and Scandal

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