ABSTRACT
Mrs Margaret Oliphant (1828–97), prolific novelist, reviewer, and writer of miscellaneous literature, was a frequent contributor to Blackwood’s, where she wrote about Dickens several times; see below, Nos. 124, 155. See also her Victorian Age in Literature (1892), Ch. vi, markedly unsympathetic to Dickens’s later work and to his pathos. In the present review, she refers to her knowledge of English dissent; this appears in her novel Salem Chapel and others in the Chronicles of Carlingford series, 1862–76.
