Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant was born in 1828 near Edinburgh and published her first novel at twenty-one. Widowed at thirty-three with three children and debts, she also took on the children of her ruined brother, and wrote to support them: nearly a hundred novels, biographies, a history of her publishing house, hundreds of articles. She buried all her children before her. Critics long held her fecundity against her as proof of mediocrity.

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• NovelMiss MarjoribanksMargaret Oliphant · 1866Literature