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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.
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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as one of Wilkie Collins's other sensation novels following The Woman in White.


Dominic Sandbrook

13. The Woman In White: Victorians, Sensation, and Scandal



