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Bibliography
Books
- Clarke, John Stock. Margaret Oliphant: A Bibliography. Queensland, Australia: Victorian Research Guides, 1986.
- Clarke, John Stock. Margaret Oliphant, 1828–1897: Non-fictional Writings: A Bibliography. Queensland, Australia: Victorian Research Guides, 1997.
- Colby, Vineta and Robert Colby. The Equivocal Virtue: Mrs. Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Marketplace. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1966.
- Jay, Elisabeth. Mrs. Oliphant: A Fiction to Herself. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- Trela, D. J. (ed.). Margaret Oliphant: Critical Essays on a Gentle Subversive. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1995.
- Williams, Merryn. Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986.
Book Chapters
- Clarke, Isabel C. Six Portraits. London: Hutchinson & Co, 1935, pp. 195-230. Limited view at Google Book Search.
- Jay, Elisabeth. “A Bed of One's Own: Margaret Oliphant” Authors at Work: the Creative Environment. Eds. Ceri Sullivan and Graeme Harper. Cambridge: The English Association, 2009.
- Martin, Maureen M. ““Into the Hands of Women”: The Wizard’s Son, the Glasgow Style, and the Return of the Feminine.” The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity. Albany: SUNY, 2009
- Onslow, Barbara. Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain. London: Macmillan, 2000, pp. 183-199.
- Peterson, Linda. “Audience and the Autobiographer's Art: An Approach to the Autobiography of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant.” Approaches to Victorian Autobiography. Ed. George P. Landow. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1979, pp. 158-174.
- Stebbins, Lucy Poate. A Victorian Album. London: Secker and Warburg, 1946, pp. 151-191.
- Terry, R. C. Victorian Popular Fiction, 1860-1880. London: Macmillan, 1983, pp. 68-101.
- Tromp, Marlene. “Sensational Violations: Betraying Boundaries in Margaret Oliphant's Salem Chapel.” The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain. Charlottesville, London: University Press of Virginia, 2000, pp. 155-98.
- Worth, George J. Macmillan's Magazine, 1859-1907 : 'no flippancy or abuse allowed'. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2003, pp. 98-146.
Articles
- Brooker, Peter, Paul Stigant, and Peter Widdowson. “History and 'literary value': Adam Bede and Salem Chapel”, in Humm, Peter, Paul Stigant, and Peter Widdowson , Popular Fictions in Literature and History, London and New York: Macmillan, [2003 (1986)], pp. 68-93.
- d'Albertis, Deirdre. “The Domestic Drone: Margaret Oliphant and a Political History of the Novel.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 37.4, 1997, pp. 805-831.
- Haythornthwaite, J. “Friendly Encounters: A Study of the Relationship between the House of Blackwood and Margaret Oliphant in her Role as Literary Critic”, Publishing History 28, 1990, pp. 79-88.
- Shattock, Joanne. “Work for Women: Margaret Oliphant's Journalism”, in Brake, Laurel, Bill Bell, and David Finkelstein (eds.), Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities. New York: Palgrave, 2000, 165-177.
Fiction
- Weinstein, Krystyna. Basketful of Fragments. Pomegranate Press, 2011.
Discussion
You might want to add the special issue of Women's Writing 6.2. (1999), edited by Elisabeth Jay and Francis O'Gorman, to the bibliography. It includes eight new essays by such scholars as Valerie Sanders, Clare Pettitt, and and Ann Heilmann.
I'm glad to see this new site! I'd like to add an item under “Book chapters” in the Bibliography Section. . .
Martin, Maureen M. ““Into the Hands of Women”: The Wizard’s Son, the Glasgow Style, and the Return of the Feminine.” The Mighty Scot: Nation, Gender, and the Nineteenth-Century Mystique of Scottish Masculinity. Albany: SUNY, 2009.
The book is mostly about the insistent masculinization of SCotland in the 19th century, but the final chapter looks at how Oliphant challenged this, and sought (in her Blackwoods essays on Scotland and in her novel, The Wizard's Son) to construct Scotland as feminine.
Does anyone know if the ms of _The Makers of Venice_ has survived and, if so, where it is?
There is an interesting article by Elisabeth Jay in Essays and Studies 2009 published by the English Association in 2009 titled 'A Bed of One's Own: Margaret Oliphant
I have just (May 2011) written a 'fictional autobiography' of Mrs Oliphant: 'A Basketful of Fragments'. In her old age she reminiscences - non-chronologically - about her life for her young great niece and namesake. I have based the book entirely on her own life and writing, and in particular her long association with Blackwood's prestigious monthly maagasine. Inevitably I have in places imagined what she might have thought or felt, but hope these are in line with what the real Margaret Oliphant did say and feel. My web site is: www.mrsoliphant.co.uk.