Margaret Oliphant achieved fame during the Victorian era for her masterpieces of domestic realism, historical novels and spellbinding tales of the supernatural. This eBook presents a comprehensive range of Oliphant’s works, with the complete Chronicles of Carlingford, the complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen, numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Oliphant’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 23 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels available in no other collection, including Oliphant’s first novels MARGARET MAITLAND and CHRISTIAN MELVILLE * Rare supernatural novels appearing in digital publishing for the first time: DIES IRAE and THE LADY’S WALK * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ series, inspired by Trollope’s Barsetshire books, with special index and links – includes the very rare short story ‘The Executor’ * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Features the complete Stories and Novels of the Seen and Unseen – first time in digital print * Includes a selection of Oliphant’s non-fiction * Features a bonus biography * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Chronicles of Carlingford Index Stories of the Seen and Unseen Index The Novels MARGARET MAITLAND OF SUNNYSIDE MERKLAND, A STORY OF SCOTTISH LIFE, OR SELF-SACRIFICE CHRISTIAN MELVILLE THE DAYS OF MY LIFE THE HOUSE ON THE MOOR THE DOCTOR’S FAMILY SALEM CHAPEL THE PERPETUAL CURATE MISS MARJORIBANKS MADONNA MARY AT HIS GATES THE CURATE IN CHARGE PHOEBE, JUNIOR A BELEAGUERED CITY THE LADIES LINDORES THE WIZARD’S SON THE LADY’S WALK SIR TOM HESTER, A STORY OF CONTEMPORARY LIFE OLD LADY MARY A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN AND HIS FAMILY THE MARRIAGE OF ELINOR DIES IRAE, THE STORY OF A SPIRIT IN PRISON The Shorter Fiction THE EXECUTOR THE RECTOR A WIDOW’S TALE AND OTHER STORIES COMPLETE STORIES OF THE SEEN AND UNSEEN The Short Stories LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Non-Fiction ROYAL EDINBURGH THE MAKERS OF MODERN ROME JEANNE D’ARC: HER LIFE AND DEATH THE SISTERS BRONTË The Biography MARGARET OLIPHANT by Richard Garnett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
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Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural". Margaret Oliphant was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, and spent her childhood at Lasswade (near Dalkeith), Glasgow and Liverpool. As a girl, she constantly experimented with writing. In 1849 she had her first novel published: Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland which dealt with the Scottish Free Church movement. It was followed by Caleb Field in 1851, the year in which she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited to contribute to the famous Blackwood's Magazine. The connection was to last for her whole lifetime, during which she contributed well over 100 articles, including, a critique of the character of Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.
