[Mrs Margaret Oliphant], from ‘Sensational Novels', Blackwood's Magazine

‘Dickens is not a favourite of mine,’ Mrs Oliphant told Blackwood at this time; ‘I think it would go against the grain to applaud him highly in his present phase.’ She felt, on the other hand, a strong ‘technical admiration’ for Collins’s Woman in White, discussed along with other novels in the same review (Autobiography and Letters, ed. Mrs H. Coghill [1899], 186).