Margaret Oliphan1828 – 1897 a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural"

 

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Like many prolific nineteenth-century women novelists, Margaret Oliphant's novels went out of print in the first half of the twentieth century. Modernist novelist and feminist Virginia Woolf wrote that Oliphant had “sold her brain…in order that she might earn her living and educate her children.”

This assessment of Oliphant's art as corrupted by the market was in part encouraged by her 'Autobiography', in which she wrote of her decision to put the education of her sons and nephew over the desire to write finer novels. #ClassicsInContext

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Margaret Oliphant
An 1881 sketch
Born	Margaret Oliphant Wilson 4 April 1828 Wallyford, Scotland
Died	20 June 1897 (aged 69) Wimbledon, London, England
Genre	Romance
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897^[1]) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works cover "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".^[2]

Revival of interest[edit]

Interest in Mrs Oliphant's work declined in the 20th century. In the mid-1980s, a small-scale revival was led by the publishers Alan Sutton^[23] and Virago Press, centred on the Carlingford series and some similarities of subject-matter with the work of Anthony Trollope.^[24]

Penguin Books in 1999 published an edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1866).^[25] Hester (1873) was reissued in 2003 by Oxford World's Classics.^[26] In 2007–2009, the Gloucester publisher Dodo Press reprinted half a dozen of Oliphant's works. In 2010, both the British Library and Persephone Books reissued The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow (1890), in the latter case with the novella Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund (1886),^[27] and the Association for Scottish Literary Studies produced a new edition of the novel Kirsteen (1890).^[28]

BBC Radio 4 broadcast four-hour dramatisations of Miss Marjoribanks in August/September 1992 and Phoebe Junior in May 1995. A 70-minute adaptation of Hester was broadcast on Radio 4 in January 2014.^[29]

Russell Hoban alludes to Oliphant's fiction in his 2003 novel Her Name Was Lola.^[30]