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Name: Lady of the Manse
Author: Lavinia Derwent

Lavinia goes to live with her bachelor brother, who is a minister. She is to help him out around the parsonage. This is a gentle and humorous narrative of what happens as she seeks to act like a "Lady of the Manse."

First publish date: 1983

Authors: Lavinia Derwent

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