The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Preliminary Tales: "the Executor', 'The Rector' and 'The doctor's family"

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Preliminary Tales: Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional portraits by way of retaliation.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Preliminary Tales: "the Executor', 'The Rector' and 'The doctor's family"

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant: Preliminary Tales: Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional portraits by way of retaliation.

Preliminary Tales: 'The Executor', 'The Rector' and 'The Doctors Family'

Preliminary Tales: 'The Executor', 'The Rector' and 'The Doctors Family' PDF Author: Muireann O'Cinneide
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Languages : en
Pages : 169

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The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 25

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 25 PDF Author: Elisabeth Jay
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134873697
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1895 novel Old Mr Tredgold with editorial notes by Elisabeth Jay including a new introduction and headnote, proving key information about the book and its publication history.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI PDF Author: Joanne Shattock
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134872992
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1200

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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) is one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century. She was both prolific and wide ranging in her career which spanned half a century. Primarily known as a novelist Mrs Oliphant is of interest to scholars today both for her wide popularity in her prime and her influential position as reviewer and journalist which saw her become an important critical voice for her generation. Her high profile in the literary world led to savage satirical portrayals in works by Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy and Henry James. This is the most ambitious and substantial scholarly edition of Margaret Oliphant's writings ever undertaken. In six parts and twenty-five volumes all her important fiction plus substantial selections of her criticism and journalism are collected and edited by a prestigious editorial team. The novels contained in Parts V and VI represent some of Margaret Oliphant's most significant work. Darker and more politically motivated than the more comic Chronicles of Carlingford, they show Oliphant at the height of her writing powers. Money, financial crises and social and sexual inequality all feature strongly in these works which find Oliphant sharply critical of materialistic, late-Victorian culture. They mirror her own experiences as a female professional writer having to support her family single-handedly. They also form some of her most popular and enduring works which gained a wide readership through serialization. The significance of Oliphant as a writer can only be fully appreciated by close study of these novels, which bring to completion this major twenty-five-volume scholarly edition.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 24

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 24 PDF Author: Josie Billington
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134873417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1883 novel The Ladies Lindores with editorial notes by Josie Billington including a new introduction and headnote, giving key information about the book and its publication history.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 23

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part VI Volume 23 PDF Author: Joanne Wilkes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134873204
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work. This volume includes her 1872 novel At his Gates with editorial notes by Joanne Wilkes, including a new introduction, headnote and explanatory notes which provide key information about the book and its publication history.

The Rector and The Doctor's Family

The Rector and The Doctor's Family PDF Author: Margaret Oliphant
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ISBN: 9781702312257
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Languages : en
Pages : 378

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She watched him as women often do watch men ... The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal ..!"These two short novels raise the curtain on an entrancing new world for all who love Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Trollope's "Barsetshire Chronicles". The setting is Carlingford, a small town not far from London in the 1800s. The cast ranges from tradesmen to aristocracy and clergy ...The Rector opens as Carlingford awaits the arrival of their new rector. Will he be high church or low? And--for there are numerous unmarried ladies in Carlingford--will he be a bachelor? After fifteen years at All Souls the Rector fancies himself immune to womanhood: he is yet to encounter the blue ribbons and dimples of Miss Lucy Wodehouse.The Doctor's Family introduces us to the newly built quarter of Carlingford where young Dr Rider seeks his living. Already burdened by his improvident brother's return from Australia, he is appalled when his brother's family and sister-in-law, Nettie, follow him to Carlingford. But the susceptible doctor is yet to discover Nettie's attractions--and her indomitable Australian will.Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828-25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural". In the 1880s she was the literary mentor of the Irish novelist Emily Lawless. During this time Oliphant wrote several works of supernatural fiction, including the long ghost story A Beleaguered City (1880) and several short tales, including "The Open Door" and "Old Lady Mary". Oliphant, during an often difficult life, wrote more than 120 works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories, and volumes of literary criticism.

The Rector and the Doctor's Family

The Rector and the Doctor's Family PDF Author: Margaret Oliphant
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ISBN: 0543959872
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Languages : en
Pages : 306

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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Bernhard Tauchnitz in Leipzig, 1870.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 12

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part III Volume 12 PDF Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
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ISBN: 9781138762893
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-97) had a wide-ranging and prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, over fifty short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. As the self-styled 'general utility woman' for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, often contributing both fiction and literary reviews to the same issue, she became a major critical voice for her generation. Her influence, usually cast on the side of 'the common reader', was such that it provoked fellow novelists such as Anthony Trollope, Henry James and Thomas Hardy to savage fictional portraits by way of retaliation.

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant

The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant PDF Author: Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)
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ISBN: 9781851965007
Category : English literature
Languages : en
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