Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

'The editors (a different editor for each volume) of these two parts provide useful introductions that contextualize the literary output of Oliphant and highlight her career as a biographer, critic, and reviewer. Highly Recommended.' CHOICE 'if the initial volumes are representative of the remainder of the project, VPR readers will want to encourage their libraries to purchase these first two parts and to place standing orders for the remainder.' Victorian Periodicals Review 'Gathering history, biography, and literary criticism along with fiction, the editors of this collection show how one extraordinarily prolific writer represented--in all its diversity--the spirit of her age.' New Books Online 19

Joanne Shattock is Emeritus Professor in the School of English at the University of Leicester. Her research interests focus on the nineteenth-century periodical press, nineteenth-century women's writing, book history, life-writing and bibliography. She is the President of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals and holds an Honorary Moser Fellowship at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Keele. Elisabeth Jay is Emerita Professor of English at Oxford Brookes University, where her research interests lie in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the interdisciplinary area of literature and theology and the permeable boundaries between fiction, biography and autobiography. She is a Fellow of the English Association and of the American Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture.