Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
by Margaret Oliphant
edited by Anne M. Scriven
First published in 1890, KIRSTEEN is a startlingly modern novel that offers a fascinating perspective on women in Victorian society
7/7
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/kirsteen/
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #novel
“THE OPEN DOOR… explores the borders between the natural physical world and the spiritual one. Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it.”
—Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s THE OPEN DOOR
6/7
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #ghoststory #supernatural
“The Victorian era witnessed the emergence of a new genre of science fiction, dystopian literature… Oliphant’s short story ‘The Land of Darkness’ is an important and overlooked example”
—Dr Oliver Tearle on Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’
5/7
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #sciencefiction #scifi #SF #dystopia #dystopian
“The belief persists that nineteenth-century Scotland failed to develop a realist novel […] I have argued here that this supposition rests on the neglect of women’s writing”
—Prof Juliet Shields on “Oliphant & Co.”: Scottish women writers of the later 19th century
4/7
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2018/06/oliphant-co/
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant
Margaret Oliphant (1828-96) has attained the obscure place in English literary history that she gloomily predicted for herself in her posthumously published autobiography: ‘No one will mention me in the same breath with George Eliot. And that is just. It is a little justification to myself to think how much better off she was. Should […]
Virginia Woolf wrote that Margaret Oliphant had “sold her brain” & “prostituted her culture”…
—on BBC Sounds: Clare Walker Gore discusses Oliphant’s career, laments Woolf’s dismissal of her work, & shows why Oliphant deserves to be read today
3/7
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0853wzj
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #VirginiaWoolf
“Oliphant… creates a series of insightful, witty & compelling narratives & characters that are deeply uncomfortable with the romantic conventions of the 19th-century novel”
—Laura Witz on Oliphant’s subversion of Victorian romance & gender conventions
2/7
https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/03/31/margaret-oliphant/
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #gender #romance
Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was born #OTD, 4 April – a 🎂 🧵
“MISS MARJORIBANKS (1866) is surely the most interesting and entertaining example of a woman writing about men in the 19th century”
—Tom Crewe in the London Review of Books on Margaret Oliphant’s 1866 novel MISS MARJORIBANKS
1/7
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n14/tom-crewe/on-the-shelf
#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #Victorian #WomenWriters #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant
“One reason Oliphant’s ghost stories are so powerful is they are hard – her BELEAGUERED CITY reminds me of Camus’s LA PESTE”
Dr Ellen Moody compares Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” with Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #Dickens #ghoststories #Christmas #gothic
From the first Christmas special in Downton Abbey, Maggie Smith as the Dowager Duchess, another old lady (from Downton Abbey, Christmas special closing Season 2, referred to below) Friends and read…
This is a longer story, but a good one -- highly recommend popping on the audio and listening to over a cup of something warm. #Christmas #Ghosts #GhostStories #MargaretOliphant #TheOpenDoor
📖 story link: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10052/10052-h/10052-h.htm#I
Assoc for Scottish Literature
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Lady Megan Fischer