Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually...
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(1791–1862), Scottish politician Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer Mark Oliphant (1901–2000), Australian physicist...
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Laurence Oliphant, 3rd Lord Oliphant Lord Oliphant Oliphant (disambiguation) William Oliphant, Lord Newton William Oliphant, Lord of Aberdalgie Margaret Oliphant...
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Miss Marjoribanks is an 1866 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in serialised form in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from February 1865...
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Hobb Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Scottish author Margaret Bloodgood Peeke (1838–1908), American traveler, lecturer, author Margaret Peterson Haddix...
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Pennsylvania, United States Oliphant (surname), a list of notable people with this name Oliphant Margaret, Scottish writer Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960)...
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The Library Window is a short story by the Scottish author Margaret Oliphant. It was first published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1896. It is a...
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the poem is "over before it has begun", while according to writer Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897), Lucy "is dead before we so much as heard of her". Lucy's...
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of print. The book received acclaim from Blackmore's contemporary, Margaret Oliphant, and as well from later Victorian writers including Robert Louis Stevenson...
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applied thorough analysis to women's status under men. The novelist Margaret Oliphant called her "a born lecturer and politician... less distinctively affected...
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University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Sept 2017 Elisabeth Jay, 'Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant Wilson (1828–1897)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
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in Phoebe, Junior of the The Chronicles of Carlingford series by Margaret Oliphant Phoebe Abbott, Phoebe Buffay's biological mother in TV show Friends...
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Charles Dickens, Letters, "Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 30 October 1859. Margaret Oliphant," Review of A Tale of Two Cities, Blackwood's, No. 109, 1871. James...
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000, and the praise of critics. In 1871, Scottish novelist and poet Margaret Oliphant described it as "the culmination of Dickens's early comic fiction";...
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(1667–1685), one of the Solway Martyrs Margaret Bayne Wilson (1795-1835), Scottish missionary to India Margaret Oliphant Wilson (1828–1897), birth name of...
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Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant during the 1840s. Both women were campaigning in Liverpool at the time (see Margaret Oliphant, Autobiography, edited...
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(1627–1711) Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1675–1677. Victorian writer Margaret Oliphant was born in Wallyford on 4 April 1828. Among her best-known works...
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Babington Macaulay who considered Austen to be a "Prose Shakespeare", and Margaret Oliphant who stated in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in March that she prefers...
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Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life is an 1883 novel written by Margaret Oliphant. It examines the cycle of history through the lives of the Vernon family...
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Brothers Nigel B. Oliphant and R. Harry Oliphant of Adelaide, South Australia, founded a business manufacturing ultraviolet lamps for scientific, industrial...
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Squire Arden is a novel by Margaret Oliphant published in 1871. The plot follows the story of Squire Edgar Arden of Arden, his sister Clare, and their...
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and calculated to work much social good". After Dickens's death, Margaret Oliphant deplored the turkey and plum pudding aspects of the book but admitted...
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to Margaret Gilles Barrett, widow of Samuel Barrett, of Jamaica, and 3rdly, 19 August 1841, Marianne, eldest daughter of James Stuart Oliphant, of Rossie...
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five volumes, edited by Gavin Carlyle. The Life of Edward Irving, by Margaret Oliphant, appeared in 1862 in two volumes. Among a large number of biographies...
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Chronicle of Carlingford (also spelled Phœbe, Junior) is an 1876 novel by Margaret Oliphant. It follows the exploits of its heroine, Phoebe Beecham, as she learns...
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Margaret Sandilands. Among his sibling was Peter Oliphant (ancestor of the Oliphants of Langton), Catherine Oliphant (wife of Sir Alexander Oliphant of...
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literary context (notably by M. H. Abrams) to discuss the work of Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontë family, E. M. Forster, Eric Pankey...
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Quincey, Elizabeth Clementine Stedman, William Mudford, Margaret Oliphant, Hugh Clifford, Mary Margaret Busk and Frank Swettenham. Robert Macnish contributed...
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Laurence Oliphant (3 August 1829 – 23 December 1888), a Member of Parliament, was a South African-born British author, traveller, diplomat, British intelligence...
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Cosmorama (1840), Russian Nights (1844) and The Living Corpse (1844) Margaret Oliphant, A Beleaguered City (1880) Valeryan Nikolayevich Olin, Rasskazy na...
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