A family friend, Dr David Macbeth Moir
, introduced MO
to William Blackwood
.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
13, 247-8
She submitted this story trembling . . . scarcely expecting to be admitted to the honours of the Magazine...
Textual Production
Felicia Hemans
Poetical Remains of the Late Mrs. Hemans appeared with a memoir by poet and Blackwood's contributor D. M. Moir
.
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