If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper.

The Victorian-era guidebook for ambitious Christian women by a British writer named Anne Pratt appears to have been checked out about 135 years ago from the Hamilton Public Library, a spokesperson for the library said.

And the suspected scofflaw, a "Miss Charlotte Morgan" of Central School in Hamilton, incriminated herself by writing her name on a back page.

“We know she was a teacher at the school in the 1890s, and we know she died in 1942,” Robert Moore, a history teacher who found the book in his late father’s house and returned it to the library last week, told NBC News. “The mystery now is when exa

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