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Oliphant, Margaret (1828 - 1897)

Short name Oliphant, Margaret
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First name Margaret
Birth name Oliphant Wilson Oliphant
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Alternative name M.O.W. — Mrs. Oliphant
Date of birth 1828
Date of death 1897
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Sex Female
Place of birth Wallyford
Place of death London
Lived in Scotland , England
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Oliphant, Margaret was ...
family: non-household Oliphant, Janet Mary
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Place(s) of Residence Scotland , England
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Passages in the Life of Margaret Maitland (1849) 0 0
Merkland : a story of Scottish life (1850) 3 0
Harry Muir, a story of Scottish life (1853) 2 0
*De familie Atheling of de drie gaven (1855~) 3 0
Zaidee : a romance (1856) 2 0
The Laird of Norlaw (1858) 2 0
The House on the Moor (1860) 3 0
Salem Chapel (1862) 1 0
The last of the Mortimers (1862) 4 0
The perpetual curate (1863) 1 0
Agnes (1865) 2 0
Miss Marjoribanks (1865) 1 0
Madonna Mary (1866) 5 0
The minister's wife (1869) 4 0
Miss Austen and Miss Mitford (1870)
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At his gates (1872) 1 0
Innocent (1873) 3 0
Whiteladies: a novel (1875) 1 0
The curate in charge (1876) 1 0
The makers of Florence : Dante, Giotto, Savonarola, and their city (1876) 2 0
Phoebe Junior, A Last Chronicle of Carlingford (1876) 1 0
Young Musgrave (1877) 5 0
Mrs. Arthur (1877) 3 0
The primrose path (1878) 2 0
The greatest heiress in England (1879) 5 0
He that will not when he may (1880) 2 1
It was a lover and his lass (1883) 2 0
Hester (1883) 5 0
The ladies Lindores (1883) 1 0
A Country Gentleman (1886) 1 0
The Neighbours on the Green (1889) 1 0
Kirsteen (1890) 1 0
The Marriage of Ellinor (1891) 1 0
The Cuckoo in the Nest (1892) 1 0
A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen (1892) 1 0
Memoir of Count de Montalembert (1892) 1 1
The Victorian Age of English literature (1893) 2 0
The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant (1899) 0 0
In trust, the story of a lady and her lover 1 0
*Anna's keuze 4 0
*John 4 0
Harry Joscelyn 1 0
*De juniroos 2 0
*Het geheim van Kinloch Houran 2 0
*De dochter van den smid 2 0
The rector and the doctor's family 1 0
Carita 1 0
May 1 0

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For receptions of her works, see under each individual Work.

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*Mention in Art. in De Gids *Mention in Art. in De Gids Boissevain, Charles 1890 -
Janet Mary Oliphant, portrait of Margaret Oliphant, 1895. Oliphant, Janet Mary 1895 is portrait of

MENTIONED IN:
- Buck, Guide to women's writing, 1992: "Supported her family by writing prolifically".
- Cambr, Nat Biogr.
- De Vries, Een stad vol lezers 2011

Cf.
- Ann Rigney, 'The Two Bodies of Mrs. Oliphant', in: History & Theory 40 (2001), afl. 1 (01 02), pag. 74 (16).
Useful introductions to Oliphant's work include:
- The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant (edited Elisabeth Jay), 1990
- Margaret Oliphant: a critical biography by Merryn Williams, 1896
- Margaret Oliphant by Jenni Calder, 1996. (Slainte.org.uk) (SP)
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Born Oliphant Wilson and married to her cousin who was also called Oliphant. MNS20

KLK 1904