Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret) 1828-1897 creator text utu 2015 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life, Volume 1 (of 3)" by Mrs. Oliphant is a novel published in 1883. When the Vernon family bank nearly collapses, Catherine Vernon uses her fortune to save it. Decades later, young Hester Vernon returns to Redborough as the daughter of the man who caused the crisis. As Hester navigates family tensions, romantic entanglements, and the weight of her father's disgrace, loyalties shift and Edward, Catherine's favored protégé, grows restless with dangerous consequences for the banking house. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hester_(novel) Release date is 2015-02-08 Produced by Delphine Lettau, Dianne Nolan and the team at Distributed Proofreaders Canada Original publication data not identified England -- Fiction Psychological fiction Young women -- Fiction Love stories Domestic fiction Family-owned business enterprises -- Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction Older women -- Fiction Conflict of generations -- Fiction Women bankers -- Fiction PR Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48197 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48197 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134116.0 48197