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Mrs Oliphant : "a fiction to herself" : a literary life /

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As an expatriate Scotswoman, Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) started her prolific and accomplished writing career removed from the centre of Victorian literary life. This comprehensive biography contains an often surprising portrait of the professional Victorian woman writer.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jay, Elisabeth (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2023.
Subjects:
Oliphant, > Mrs. > (Margaret), > 1828-1897.
Women and literature > Scotland > History > 19th century.
Women novelists, Scottish > 19th century > Biography.
Femmes et littérature > Écosse > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Women and literature
Scotland
1800-1899
Electronic books.
Biographies
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:As an expatriate Scotswoman, Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) started her prolific and accomplished writing career removed from the centre of Victorian literary life. This comprehensive biography contains an often surprising portrait of the professional Victorian woman writer.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 1995.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates): illustrations (black and white), geneal.table,portraits.
Bibliography:Bibliography: pages 340-347.
ISBN:9781383004199
1383004196