The supplemental materials to this edition of Phoebe Junior provide a rich background for examining key nineteenth-century issues such as religion and church reform, gender and the woman question, society and politics.
Halloween might seem like the spookiest time of year, but Charles Dickens and other great ghost story writers felt otherwise!
Margaret Oliphant was widely recognised at the time of her death as one of the great Victorian writers of fiction. Yet many of Oliphant's works remain unavailable. This... Læs mere
Kirsteen, from an old but impoverished family, rebels against her father and flees to London. Against the odds she finds work, striving for... Læs mere
Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties.... Læs mere
MISS MARJORIBANKS is one of her Chronicles of Carlingford. Exquisite and entertaining comedies of Victorian provincial Society.
An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828–97) wrote novels, short stories, biographies and a series of cultural histories of European... Læs mere
Margaret Oliphant's Sheridan (1883) covers the youth, writing, career and middle age of the famous playwright, theatre owner, politician and radical, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Oliphant - a... Læs mere
Published in 1897 as a contribution to the celebrations of Queen Victoria as the longest reigning British monarch, this collection of... Læs mere
Margaret Oliphant (1828–97) was a Scots novelist who published over one hundred works. This posthumous autobiography of 1899, edited by a cousin,... Læs mere
First published posthumously, Annals of a Publishing House contains the early history of the influential... Læs mere