About the Author: Mrs. Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural".
Margaret Oliphant was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, and spent her childhood at Lasswade (near Dalkeith), Glasgow and Liverpool. As a girl, she constantly experimented with writing. In 1849 she had her first novel published: Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland which dealt with the Scottish Free Church movement. It was followed by Caleb Field in 1851, the year in which she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited to contribute to the famous Blackwood's Magazine. The connection was to last for her whole lifetime, during which she contributed well over 100 articles, including, a critique of the character of Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
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Mrs. Oliphant
Paperback, Published in Jul 2016 by Forgotten Books
ISBN10: 1333012276 | ISBN13: 9781333012274
Page count: 368
Excerpt from Agnes, Vol. 1 of 2
It is a shabby expedient to begin a novel with a theory; but it may, perhaps, be excused on the plea that the novel has not been constructed to suit the theory, though the author feels herself justified in making use of one to account for her work. It has always been my opinion that, as the great value of fiction lies in its power of delineating life, there may be cases in which it may assume to a certain extent the form of biography: I do not mean of autobiography, which is sufficiently common in novels; but that the writer of fiction may occasionally be permitted to sup plement the work of the serious biographer - to depict.
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