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The other Van Osburgh daughter in The House of Mirth
By Edith Wharton
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The other Van Osburgh daughter
The oldest of Maria's three daughters is not named. All we know is that she married Herbert Melson, the only man Lily was ever in love with at the time the novel begins.
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