THE NARRATIVE OF M. LE MAIRE: THE CONDITION OF THE CITY.
I, Martin Dupin (de la Clairiere), had the honour
of holding the office of Maire in the town of Semur,
in the Haute Bourgogne, at the tim...
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Margaret Oliphant is an underrated figure in the history of the Victorian novel. Her enormous output is worth studying as a barometer of Victorian taste, although she did eventually fail to keep up wi...
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Even though she was Queen Victoria's favorite novelist, by the end of the nineteenth century Margaret Oliphant had disappeared into the land of the unknown and unread. Her banishment into the critical...
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Few women represent the issues that surrounded Victorian England's "woman question" as literally and literarily as Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, whose odd full name was the result of her marrying...
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A Beleaguered City
Margaret (Oliphant Wilson) Oliphant