Anthony Trollope 
Miss Sarah Jack 

Wealthy spinster Miss Sarah Jack encourages young Maurice Cumming, the impoverished proprietor of a Jamaican coffee and sugar plantation, to run for the House of Assembly in Jamaica. Whilst in Spanish Town, Maurice meets and falls in love with Miss Sarah Jack’s niece – the serial flirt Marian Leslie. The path to their love will not be smooth however, and Miss Sarah Jack finds herself occupied with trying to bring the young couple together. One of Anthony Trollope’s earlier novels, ‘Miss Sarah Jack’ was first published in 1861.-