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 8 Writings on Biography II. Introduction, Sheridan (1883), Thomas Chalmers, Preacher, Philosopher and Statesman (1893), Memoir of the Life of John Tulloch (1888), Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant, and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife (1891), Editorial Notes