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"book series about a family of young women and their close in age stepmother, now widowed. They are having some difficulty with resources and are living in a fair to good house in town. One of the first two novels is the courtship between one of the elder daughters and a schoolteacher/curate, and the other book a marquis disguised as their butler and the daughter in that book is interested in Egypt/archeology."