Margaret oliphant biography summary

Read- A Beleaguered City. New York: R. Margaret Oliphant. Short stories [ edit ]. Between and , she gave birth to four children, two of whom survived infancy.

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Her husband was an artist working mainly in stained glass. Oliphant," The Bookman, Vol. January Her accomplishments under these circumstances are remarkable. Oliphant," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. In the s, as literary tastes changed, Oliphant could command less money for her work than she had done previously. Garnett, Richard Landow Opinions on Oliphant's work are split, with some critics seeing her as a "domestic novelist", while others recognise her work as influential and important to the Victorian literature canon.

A minute adaptation of Hester was broadcast on Radio 4 in January Rubik, Margarete Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online ed.

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Over the course of her career, Oliphant published nearly one hundred novels novels, and innumerable other works of fiction and nonfiction. At the time of her death, Oliphant was still working on Annals of a Publishing House , a record of the progress and achievement of the firm of Blackwood, with which she had been so long connected. Hamden, Conn.

In addition to her own children, Oliphant supported her alcoholic brother Willie and, after his bankruptcy in and the death of his wife in , her brother Frank and his three children. Trela, D. Gallery [ edit ]. Resources in your library Resources in other libraries. She returned to England and took up literature to support her three surviving children.

Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place. Their marriage was short-lived. Margaret Maitland , which examined its effects on an extended family in small-town Scotland.