Works Margaret_Oliphant

1 works

1.1 novels
1.2 short stories
1.3 selected articles
1.4 biographies
1.5 historical , critical works
1.6 critical reception
1.7 revival of interest

works

oliphant wrote more 120 works, including novels, books of travel , description, histories, , volumes of literary criticism.

novels

short stories

neighbours on green (1889).
a widow s tale , other stories (1898).
that little cutty (1898).
open door. in: great ghost stories (1918).

selected articles

biographies

her biographies of edward irving (1862) , cousin laurence oliphant (1892), life of sheridan in english men of letters series (1883), show vivacity , sympathetic touch. wrote biographies of francis of assisi (1871), french historian count de montalembert (1872), dante (1877), cervantes (1880), , scottish theologian john tulloch (1888).

historical , critical works

historical sketches of reign of george ii (1869) (see george ii.)
the makers of florence (1876)
a literary history of england 1760 1825 (1882)
the makers of venice (1887)
royal edinburgh (1890)
jerusalem (1891)
the makers of modern rome (1895)
william blackwood , sons (1897)
sisters brontë. in: women novelists of queen victoria s reign (1897)

at time of death, oliphant still working on annals of publishing house, record of progress , achievement of firm of blackwood, had been long connected. autobiography , letters, present touching picture of domestic anxieties, appeared in 1899. parts written wider audience in mind: had intended autobiography son, died before had finished it.

critical reception

m. r. james admired oliphant s supernatural fiction, , stated religious ghost story, may called, never done better mrs. oliphant in open door , beleaguered city . mary butts lauded oliphant s ghost story library window , describing 1 masterpiece of sober loveliness .

revival of interest

interest in mrs. oliphant s work declined in 20th century. in mid-1980s, small-scale revival led publishers alan sutton , virago press, centred on carlingford series , similarities of subject-matter work of anthony trollope.

penguin books in 1999 published edition of miss marjoribanks (1866). hester (1873) reissued in 2003 oxford world s classics. in 2007–2009, gloucester publisher dodo press reprinted half dozen of oliphant s works. in 2010, both british library , persephone books reissued mystery of mrs. blencarrow (1890), in latter case novella queen eleanor , fair rosamund (1886), , association scottish literary studies produced new edition of novel kirsteen (1890).

bbc radio 4 broadcast four-hour dramatisation of miss marjoribanks in august/september 1992 , four-hour dramatisation of phoebe junior in may 1995. 70-minute adaptation of hester broadcast on radio 4 in january 2014.

russell hoban alludes oliphant s fiction in 2003 novel name lola.