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= A Drama in Muslin = A Drama is Muslin is a novel by Irish novelist, George Moore. After appearing in in Court and Society Review, January 1886, the novel was first published by Vizatelly & Co., London, in 1886. Later editions were published by William Heinemann, London; and a revised version appeared under the title Muslin in 1915.

Plot Summary
The novel follows the lives of two young women, Olive and Alice Barton, and their mother, Mrs Barton, and they enter into polite society and the marriage market. Written against the backdrop of activities of the Land League, the novel highlight the class tensions present in the nineteenth century Ireland, and the decline of the landlord class.

The narrative travels between the Barton's life on the country estate in Co Mayo, and Dublin city, where they move for the society season so that Olive and Alice can be formally presented. The Barton sisters are considered the 'belles of the season' and vie for the favour of the Marquis of Kilcarney who needs to marry to save his estate. Olive, however, has other plans and attempts to elope with a poor army officer: another character, May, becomes pregnant outside of marriage. Alice, disillusioned by her sister and friend's experiences, rejects the marriage market and marries a middle-class doctor, with whom she moves to South Kensington, London, rejecting the world of her parents.