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Title
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Genre
Fiction; Serial
TX Date
Unknown
Year of production
1985
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Duration
00:19:31
Description
One of 15 narrated episodes of Wilkie Collins’ 1862 novel No Name, set in West Somersetshire. Magdalen Vanstone, finding that she and her sister Norah are illegitimate, has contrived with the aid of Captain Wragg to retrieve her inheritance by deceiving her cousin Noel into marriage. Episode covers Magdalen’s contemplation of suicide by laundanum prior to the marriage, Noel’s housekeeper Mrs Lecount making her master aware he had married an imposter, their discovery of the poison and conclusion Magdalen is planning to kill him. Female reader not identified.
Further information
For further information on plot see: http://www.btinternet.com/~glynhughes/squashed/noname.htm
Contributors
Wilkie Collins
Keywords
Books; Suicide; Law; Somerset; Illegitimacy; Homicide; Novels; Literature; Fiction; Radio book readings; Victorian period; Family law

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