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Date: Feb. 14th, 2023 06:41 pm (UTC)And 'Hester' sounds fascinating, I love the idea of the story centred on a bank (what can I say, I am the daughter of two accountants...)
It is a very interesting setting! And Oliphant makes the most of it for developing characters and relationships (Catherine working and succeeding in a position very unusual for a nineteenth-century woman; Edward being drawn to the allure of stock market gambling; Hester's views on the bank at the end...).