An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828 97) is best remembered for her Chronicles of Carlingford novels which sketch the religious and domestic politics of a provincial community and for her many book reviews, essays and serialised fiction for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Her output included ninety-eight novels, some fifty short stories, works of biography and non-fiction, and a series of cultural histories of European cities, of which this is the last. A place of poignant association for Mrs Oliphant, Rome was the city in which both her husband and daughter...
An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828 97) is best remembered for her Chronicles of Carlingford novels which sketch the...
An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828 97) is best remembered for her Chronicles of Carlingford novels which sketch the religious and domestic politics of a provincial community particularly the most popular in the cycle, Miss Marjoribanks (1866), and for her many book reviews, essays and serialised fiction for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Her output included ninety-eight novels, some fifty short stories, works of biography and non-fiction, and a series of cultural histories of European cities, of which this is the second. Originally published in 1887, the...
An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828 97) is best remembered for her Chronicles of Carlingford novels which sketch the...
An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828 97) is best remembered for her 'Chronicles of Carlingford' novels which sketch the religious and domestic politics of a provincial community particularly the most popular in the cycle, Miss Marjoribanks (1866), and for her many book reviews, essays and serialised fiction for Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Her output included ninety-eight novels, some fifty short stories, works of biography and non-fiction, and a series of cultural histories of European cities, of which this is the first. Originally published in 1876, the...
An influential and prolific Victorian author, Margaret Oliphant (1828 97) is best remembered for her 'Chronicles of Carlingford' novels which sketch t...
"She who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission" Lucilla Marjoribanks is determined to look after her widowed father and become 'the sunshine of his life' whether he likes it or not. Once installed back at home and presiding over her father's drawing room, she launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select evening parties. Lucilla is optimistic, resourceful and completely without self-doubt, bt will her indomitable nature diminish her marriage prospects? Will she marry the wrong man to save...
"She who held the reorganisation of society in Carlingford in her hands was a woman with a mission" Lucilla Marjoribanks is determined to ...