The Selected Works of Margaret Oliphant, Part II: Literary Criticism, Autobiography, Biography and Historical Writing: 5 - 9 (The Pickering Masters) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851966080 ISBN 13: 9781851966080

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'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

About the Author:

Linda H. Peterson (1948 2015) was Niel Gray, Jr Professor of English at Yale University. She was the author of Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (1999) and Becoming a Woman of Letters: Myths of Authorship, Facts of the Victorian Market (2009).

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1851966080
• ISBN 13: 9781851966080
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 2368
• Editor: Broughton Trev Lynn, Cosslett Tess, Jasper David, O'Gorman Francis, Peterson Linda, Sanders Valerie, Shattock Joanne, Wilkes Joanne