1st Edition
The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part I Volume 1 Literary Criticism 1854-69
Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.
Introduction Articles from Blackwood Magazine 1854-69, ‘Mary Russel Mitford' (June 1854); ‘Mr Thackeray and his Novels' (January 1855); ‘Bulwer’ (February 1855); ‘Charles Dickens' (April 1855); ‘Modern Novelists Great and Small’ (May 1855); ‘Modern Light Literature - Poetry’ (February 1856); ‘Sydney Smith' (March 1856); ‘The Laws Concerning Women (April 1856); ‘The Condition of Women' (February 1858); ‘The Byways of Literature' (August 1858); ‘Poetry’ (July 1860); ‘Social Science' (December 1860); ‘A Merry Christmas' (January 1861); ‘Sensation Novels’ (May 1862); ‘David Wingate' (July 1862) 2; ‘John Wilson' (December 1862); ‘Novels' (August 1863); ‘Tara’ (November 1863); ‘The Great Unrepresented' (September 1866); ‘Novels' (September 1867); ‘The Latest Lawgiver' (June 1868); ‘Charles Reade’s Novels' (October 1869); From the Edinburgh Review 1869; ‘The Subjection of Women etc’ (October 1869)
Biography
Volume Editor Joanna Shattock
