ABSTRACT

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.

Part II: Literary Criticism, Autobiography, Biography and Historical Writing, Volume 5 Literary Criticism, 1887–97 Articles from ‘The Old Saloon’ Blackwood’s Magazine 1887–92 ‘In Maga’s Library: The Old Saloon’ ( January 1887) ‘The Old Saloon’ (February 1887) ‘The Old Saloon’ (March 1887) ‘The Old Saloon’ (April 1887) ‘The Old Saloon: The Literature of the Last Fif y Years’ ( June 1887) ‘The Old Saloon’ (August 1887) The Old Saloon’ (November 1887) ‘The Old Saloon’ ( June 1888) ‘The Old Saloon’ (March 1889) to ‘The Old Saloon’ (December 1892) From Blackwood’s Magazine 1887 ‘The Rev. W. Lucas Collins’ (May 1887) From Macmillan’s Magazine 1887 ‘Mrs Craik’ (December 1887) From ‘A Fireside Commentary’ St. James’s Gazette January–June 1888 ‘A Fireside Commentary’ (5 March 1888) ‘A Fireside Commentary’ (24 March 1888) ‘A Fireside Commentary’ (4 April 1888) to ‘A Fireside Commentary’ (8 June 1888) From the St James’s Gazette ‘A Forthcoming Book and its Author’ (22 May 1888) From ‘A Commentary from an Easy-Chair’, the Spectator (1889–90) ‘A Commentary from an Easy-Chair’ (14 December 1889) to ‘A Commentary in an Easy-Chair’ (11 October 1890) From the Spectator: ‘The Seen and the Unseen’ (1 February 1896) From Blackwood’s Magazine ‘Tennyson’ (November 1892) From ‘Things in General’ Atalanta 1893–4 ‘Things in General’ (October 1893) ‘Things in General’ (December 1893) ‘Things in General’ (March 1894) ‘Things in General’ (May 1894) ‘Things in General’ (August 1894) From Blackwood’s Magazine ‘The Letters of Sir Walter Scott’ ( January 1894) 389 From ‘The Looker-on’ Blackwood’s Magazine 1894–96 ‘The Looker-on’ (August 1894) ‘The Looker-on’ ( January 1895) ‘The Looker-on’ ( June 1895) ‘The Looker-on’ (December 1895) ‘The Looker-on’ ( June 1896) ‘The Looker-on’ (October 1896) From Blackwood’s Magazine ‘The Anti-Marriage League’ ( January 1896) ‘John Gibson Lockhart’ (November 1896)