Beschrijving
The Manoeuvring Mother (Vol. 1–3) is a finely observed novel of fashionable society, courtship, and domestic strategy, centred on the social ambitions and moral compromises of a mother determined to direct her children’s futures. Written in the idiom of the nineteenth-century society novel, it combines drawing-room dialogue, satirical portraiture, and a sharp attention to rank, money, marriage, and reputation. Its three-volume form places it firmly within the circulating-library culture of its age, while its concerns align it with the \
