The Works of Margaret Oliphant

by Mrs. Oliphant

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

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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

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Genres: Fiction, Classics

Kindle Edition

First published January 7, 2013

About the author

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.