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Miss Buncle
but had already published two books by the time Marjory Fleming was published in 1946
or capture with such accuracy the perilous years of the rise of a dictatorship
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Alas, Poor Lady Category_Grey Books/Social Comedy Miss Buncle464pp ISBN 9781903155554 By the time Rachel Ferguson wrote Alas, Poor Lady in 1937 it was possible to look back with horror and disbelief at what had happened to the daughters of extravagantly large Victorian families, victims of parental incompetence (p107), who did not manage, through ineptitude or plainness or bad luck, to catch a husband. This novel is in the Lytton Strachey tradition of furious anger with those who had gone before. There were