Margaret Oliphant
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As the breadwinner for her constantly extending family, Blackwood's and other magazines. She was equally prolific in short stories and in works of information: biography, socio-historical studies of cities, art criticism, historical sketches, literary histories, and a characteristic, fragmented autobiography, selective but nonetheless revealing. She also did translation and editing. She consistently foregrounds issues involved in Victorian expectations of womanhood: the relationships of daughter, sister, wife, and mother (especially the last).
was astonishingly productive. She published (sometimes by name, sometimes anonymously, often with no name but with allusion to her previous works) ninety-eight novels, and three times that many articles for - BirthName: Margaret Oliphant Wilson
- Married: OliphantShe was professionally known as Mrs Oliphant, a name she first used in the year she was widowed.
- Pseudonyms: Mrs Margaret Maitland; M.O.W.O.This was the form of her initials which she herself preferred to use, emphasising her possession of the name Oliphant both by christening and by marriage.