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 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 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...