SW
was born in London, the only child of well-to-do parents.
Elisabeth Jay
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography puts her birth-date earlier: 1837 or 1838.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols.
9: 179
Cultural formation
Emma Jane Worboise
The Literary World was apparently mistaken in calling EJWthe novelist of Evangelical Dissent and in speculating as to whether or not she ever left the Anglican
Church.
qtd. in
Melnyk, Julie. “Evangelical Theology and Feminist Polemic: Emma Jane Worboises OverdaleWomens Theology in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers, edited by Julie Melnyk, Garland, 1998, pp. 107-22.
109
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography...
Fictionalization
Margaret Oliphant
It is almost impossible to calculate MO
's lifetime earnings as an author: she used various different publishers, and borrowed money from them as well as waiting to be paid. But it seems from the...
Literary responses
Annie Louisa Walker
According to Elisabeth Jay
, editor and biographer of Margaret Oliphant, ALW
's editorial changes had the effect of conventionalising Oliphant's autobiography, converting, for instance, the author's fierce and unruly grief into pious resignation.
Colby, Vineta, and Robert Alan Colby. The Equivocal Virtue. Archon Books, 1966.
269n65
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
26
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
In 1997 British publisher Adam Matthew
published the microform collection Oliphant: The Correspondence and Literary Manuscripts of Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897), which includes her correspondence with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine as well as many letters relating...
Publishing
Margaret Oliphant
She wrote scraps about herself from her thirties onwards, intending them at first as a record for her family. Later she became willing to use them to make money for the benefit of her nieces...
Textual Features
Emma Jane Worboise
The narrator rebukes Agatha for abandoning the evangelical choice of belief she had already made. As critic Elisabeth Jay
puts it, the chance of combining doctrinal instruction with the sensational possibilities involved in examining priestly...
Textual Features
Sarah Williams
Elisabeth Jay
in the ODNB notes that the plot of this gothic novel is also that of one of SW
's narrative poems.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Textual Features
Margaret Oliphant
This is a novel, not the historical work it sounds like. Biographer Elisabeth Jay
singles out its cameo portrait of an aristocratic old man facing death, consoling himself with his high lineage yet worried about...
Textual Production
Margaret Oliphant
MO
, as the author of Margaret Maitland, published The Days of My Life. An Autobiography, which is in fact a novel whose female narrator undergoes some experience related to that of her...
Textual Production
Margaret Oliphant
The Cornhill Magazine published MO
's story Mr. Sandford; it was reprinted in her collection Ways of Life, 1897.
The Dictionary of Literary Biography spells this name Sanford; Elisabeth Jay
spells it Sandford.
Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996.
159: 259
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
343
Textual Production
Margaret Oliphant
While doing research for this book MO
first realised that her mother was accurate in claiming for the Oliphants descent from the noble family of Kellie.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
201
Elisabeth Jay
feels that Laurence (who travelled from...
Timeline
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Texts
Jay, Elisabeth. “British Writers and Paris, 1840-1871: a research project in outline”. English Now: Selected Papers from the 20th IAUPE Conference in Lund 2007, edited by Marianne Thormählen, Lund University, 2008, pp. 110-17.
Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs Oliphant: "A Fiction to Herself": A Literary Life. Clarendon Press, 1995.
Oliphant, Margaret. The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant: the Complete Text. Editor Jay, Elisabeth, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Jay, Elisabeth. The Religion of the Heart: Anglican Evangelicalism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Clarendon Press, 1979.
Gaskell, Elizabeth. The Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Editors Shattock, Joanne et al., Pickering and Chatto, 2005, 10 vols.
