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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
Amministratore Varese Social
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Assoc for Scottish Literature
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