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The Ladies of Missalonghi is a short novel by Australian writer Colleen McCullough commissioned for the Hutchinson Novellas series and published in the United States in the Harper Short Novel series in 1987.
- Colleen McCullough
- 1987
Jan 1, 1987 · The Ladies of Missalonghi is a complete and total rip-off of Montgomery's story (PLAGIARISM). The stories are exactly the same. A Victorian Old Maid (29 year-old Valancy in TBC, 33 year-old Missy in TLoM) lives a boring and restricted life with her widowed mother and maiden aunt.
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Apr 1, 1988 · THE LADIES OF MISSALONGHI is the story of Missy Wright, a 33 year-old-woman who has had a very dismal life. She lives with her widowed mother and maiden aunt in a small town called Byron in the Blue Mountains of Australia.
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- Colleen McCullough
Mar 13, 2022 · Title: The Ladies of Missalonghi. Author: Colleen McCullough. Publisher: HarperCollins. Publication date: 1987. Length: 192 pages. Genre: Historical fiction. Source: Purchased. Rating: Sometimes fairy tales can come true–even for plain, shy spinsters like Missy Wright.
Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time. Missy Wright's mother, a Hurlingford by birth, has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, the women live a quiet existence in genteel poverty.
Daily Post. Seductive and satisfying... Readers will want to devour it in one sitting' Publishers Weekly. An endearing tale, full of wit, warmth and romance, from the bestselling author of The Thorn Birds. The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron, n…
Internet Archive. Language. English. 200 pages (large print) ; 24 cm. Missy Wright's mother has been shunned by her family since marrying for love, not money. Now widowed, the women live a quiet existence in genteel poverty. Plain, thin and unforgivably single, it seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary.
