Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)
Author of Miss Marjoribanks
About the Author
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 - 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer who married her cousin, Frank Wilson Oliphant. Oliphant's first novel was published in 1849, Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland. The book dealt show more with the Scottish Free Church movement. Oliphant, during an often difficult life, wrote more than 120 works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories, and volumes of literary criticism. Among the best known of her works of fiction are: Adam Graeme (1852), The Marriage of Elinor (1892), The Ways of Life (1897). She died at Wimbledon, London, on 25 June 1897. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: Mrs. Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897)
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Works by Margaret Oliphant
The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century (1889) 9 copies
Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland of Sunnyside - Scholar's Choice Edition (2009) 5 copies
Merkland, a Story of Scottish Life, by the Author of 'passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland'. (2009) 4 copies
Within the Precincts 3 copies
Annals of a publishing house : William Blackwood and his sons, their magazine and friends Volume II 3 copies
Memoirs and Resolutions of Adam Graeme, of Messgray By the author of "Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland,"… (1999) 3 copies
The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century. In Three Volumes.… (1882) 3 copies
Margaret Oliphant - The Ways of Life: "It is often easier to justify one's self to others than to respond to the… (2018) 2 copies
Lillies Leaf: being a concluding series of Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, etc. 2 copies
El superviviente y otros relatos 2 copies
The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century (In Three Volumes… (2009) 2 copies
Annals of a publishing house: William Blackwood and his sons, their magazine and friends (1974) 2 copies
A Little Pilgrim 2 copies
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs Oliphant: Volume 1-Including One Novel, 'The Complete Little… (2014) 2 copies
The Second Son 2 copies
Whiteladies: Volume 1 1 copy
The Life and Times of Queen Victoria - with which is incorporated "The Domestic Life of the Queen" 1 copy
Annals of a publishing house: William Blackwood and his sons, their magazine and friends vol 3 1 copy
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Mrs Oliphant: Volume 2-Including Two Novellas, 'Old Lady Mary, ' 'a… (2014) 1 copy
Lucy Crofton 1 copy
The Sisters Bronte 1 copy
The Secret Chamber 1 copy
Cousin Mary 1 copy
Dante. 1 copy
Heart and Cross 1 copy
The Quiet Heart, by the Author of 'katie Stewart'. (Orig. Publ. in Blackwood's Magazine). (2012) 1 copy
John, a love story 1 copy
Mercy Philbrick's Choice 1 copy
The minister's wife 1 copy
Oliphant Margaret 1 copy
A Son of the Soil. A novel 1 copy
Associated Works
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Contributor — 145 copies
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume One (2016) — Contributor — 133 copies
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Contributor — 57 copies
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributor — 42 copies
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, (1967) — Contributor — 28 copies
A Serious Occupation: Literary Criticism by Victorian Women Writers (2003) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Other voice : Scottish women's writing since 1808 : an anthology (1988) — Contributor — 9 copies
Memoirs of the life of Anna Jameson — Postscript — 2 copies
Gwiazdka Z Duchami 1 copy
Wakacje Wśród Duchów — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Other names
- Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson (married name)
Wilson, Margaret Oliphant (birth name)
Melville, Christian (pen name)
Oliphant, Mrs. - Birthdate
- 1828-04-04
- Date of death
- 1897-06-25
- Burial location
- Eton Parish Cemetery, Eton, England
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Wallyford, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, UK
- Place of death
- Wimbledon, London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Florence, Italy
Rome, Italy
London, England, UK
Liverpool, England, UK
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK (show all 8)
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland, UK - Occupations
- writer
cultural historian
novelist
essayist
autobiographer - Short biography
- Margaret Oliphant Wilson was born in Wallyford, near Musselburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a customs house official. The family moved to Liverpool, England, when she was a child. She began writing as a teenager. In 1852, she married her cousin Francis Oliphant, an artist, and turned to writing to help support them and their seven children. Her first published work was Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland (1849), and she became a regular contributor to Blackwood's Literary Magazine. Her husband died in 1859 while on a family trip to Italy, leaving Margaret pregnant. John Blackwood sent her funds to enable her to return to England and to relocate to Elie in Fife. She wrote more than 100 novels, biographies, translations, travel books, and collections of short stories during her prolific career. Her best-remembered works are the group of novels known as The Chronicles of Carlingford, which consisted of The Rector and the Doctor’s Family (1863), Salem Chapel (1863), The Perpetual Curate (1864), Miss Majoribanks (1866), and Phoebe Junior (1876). Many of her popular works focused on Scottish life, including The Minister’s Wife (1869) and Kirsteen (1890). She also wrote a volume of supernatural stories, Tales of the Seen and Unseen, and an autobiography that was published posthumously in 1899.
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Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 6: Phoebe, Junior in Virago Modern Classics (June 2023)
Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 5: Miss Marjoribanks in Virago Modern Classics (March 2023)
Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 3: Salem Chapel in Virago Modern Classics (November 2022)
Victorian Readalong Q3: Hester by Margaret Oliphant in Club Read 2022 (September 2022)
Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 4: The Perpetual Curate in Virago Modern Classics (August 2022)
Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 2: The Doctor's Family in Virago Modern Classics (November 2021)
Margaret Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford 1: The Executor / The Rector in Virago Modern Classics (November 2021)
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- Works
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Rosalind is Grace's stepdaughter, and calls her mother because Grace is the only mother Rosalind has ever known. She is loyal to Grace despite wicked rumours, most of them perpetrated by the family nurse who brought up Rosalind and her four half-brothers and sisters. The nurse has tried to poison the younger children's minds against their mother, and has carried malicious stories to Grace's husband.
Somewhere I read that this was Margaret Oliphant's favourite of her books. It has less humour than the Carlingford series because Grace is such a tragic figure, and so ill-treated, but there is some in the sketches of the minor characters, particularly Aunt Sophy. I was very much engaged because I had to find out what would happen to Grace and Rosalind.… (more)