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The Golden Calf by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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3.0

This is a wonderfully engaging story and Ida Pallister is a fun heroine. She’s bright, intellectual, and musically talented. But she suffers from being duty bound and hiding her shame.

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4.0

Ida Palliser is an impoverished young woman whose feckless father has dumped her in a boarding school and left her to fend for herself. The story involves a secret marriage, Ida's efforts to find a position in life, and the tribulations she endures before finding true love.

It's a typical Braddon romance, where the themes of marriage, and women's dependence and subjection to men are central.
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