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The Mid-Nineteenth-Century Novel
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Living Age 21 Feb 1857. In Tales from Blackwood, Edinburgh and
London 1879 (retitled Witcherley ways: a Christmas tale,
abridged).
Preface to Selections from Cowper’s poems, London and New York
1883 [rptd 1892 and 1905] (Golden Treasury ser).
An anxious moment [story]. In The new amphion: being the book of
the Edinburgh University Union fancy fair, Edinburgh 1886
(book intended as fund-raiser for the student union).
The sisters Brontë. In Women novelists of Queen Victoria’s reign: a
book of appreciations, 1897.
Prologue to Robert Wilson, The life and times of Queen Victoria,
London, Paris, New York and Melbourne 1900. Earlier edns in
1887, 1888, 1891–3. Oliphant’s prologue appears only in 1900.
The golden rule. First pbd in Black and White 22 Aug 1891,
Newcastle Weekly Courant and Hampshire Telegraph and
Sussex Chron 26 Dec 1891. In Stories from Black and White, 1893.
Contributions to periodicals
Material rptd in book form generally not listed here. Most of Oliphant’s
novels and many short stories are listed above though originally serialised.
For Oliphant’s contributions to the following periodicals, see Wellesley:
Blackwood’s Mag, 254 reviews and articles and 34 short stories or novels
from 1852–97; Contemporary Rev, 4 articles; Cornhill Mag, 4 reviews and
16 stories or novels; Edinburgh Rev, 6 reviews; Fraser’s Mag, 1 article, 2
works of fiction; Longman’s Mag, 4 works of fiction; Macmillan’s Mag,9
reviews, 9 works of fiction; New Quart Mag, 1 work of fiction; New Rev,1
article, St Pauls, 1 novel.
Atalanta: Mary’s brother, Oct 1892; story. Things in general, Oct
1893–Sep 1894; monthly editorial on literature, travel and social
issues. A maiden’s mind, Dec 1895.
Athenaeum: The complaints of authors, 7 Feb 1891; unsigned,
against Tillotson’s unauthorised republication of The heir presumptive
and the heir apparent.
Black and White: A chance encounter, 12 Dec 1891.
Court and Society Rev: The story of an anonymous letter, 16 Nov–14
Dec 1887. Oliphant’s son Cyril a part owner of this periodical.
English Illus Mag: Heidelberg, Oct 1884. Margaret of Scotland, Nov
1889; included in Royal Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Oct 1890.
Forum (New York): Success in fiction, May 1889.
Good Words: Madam Saint-Ange, Christmas no 1867. The count’s
daughters, Christmas no 1874 and Littell’s Living Age 30 Jan–6
Feb 1875. A party of travellers, Mar–June 1879. Anthony Trollope,
Feb 1883. San Remo, Feb 1893. The Queen, June 1897.
Harper’s New Monthly Mag: Queen Victoria, June 1880.
Illus London News: A divided pair, 6 Feb 1892 suppl, illustr E. F.
Brewthall.
Lady’s Pictorial: Elisabeth, Christmas no 1890.
McClure’s Mag: A visitor and his opinions, Dec 1893 also Littell’s
Living Age 20 May 1893 and Blackwood’s Mag Apr 1893.
Nat Mag: Eben, a true story, Nov–Dec 1857 and Littell’s Living Age
26 Dec 1857.
Nat Observer: The member’s wife, 4–11 Mar 1893.
Pall Mall Mag: The mysterious bridegroom, Mar 1895; sequel to John.
Scribner’s Monthly: Norah, the story of a wild Irish girl, May–June
1871.
Sharpe’s London Mag: Annie Orme: how Annie Orme was settled in
life, and what we did to help it on. By her aunt, Miss Rachel
Sinclair, mantua-maker, Lasswade, Sep–Oct 1852 and Littell’s
Living Age 20 Nov 1852.
St James’s Gazette: A series of 21 articles on social, political and literary
issues headed A fireside commentary, running from 11 Jan–8
June 1888, continued under various titles until 24 Aug 1888, all
but the last article rptd in St James’s Budget 5–8 days after
Gazette’s pbn.
St James’s Mag: Isabell Carr, Oct–Nov 1861 and Littell’s Living Age
23 Nov, 21 Dec 1861.
St Nicholas (New York, children’s mag, 6 articles with general title
Windsor Castle): The Order of the Garter, Mar 1876; The captive
prince, May 1876; The baby king, July 1876; The Tudors, Aug
1876; The Stuarts, Sep 1876; Queen Victoria, Oct 1876.
Spectator: The rights of women, 7 Mar 1874. The study of history at
Eton, 29 Jan 1876. Memorials of a quiet life, 8 July 1876. The
Christian doctrine of sin, 12 Aug 1876. Post mortem, 13 Aug 1881.
Mrs Oliphant and Bishop Wilberforce, 6 Jan 1883. Life on the
lagoons, 21 June 1884. Are women a ‘represented class’, 1 Nov
1884. Hurrish, 30 Jan 1886. Principal Tulloch, 20 Feb 1886. The
story of the nations: Ireland, 14 Jan 1888. A commentary from my
chair, 7, 14, 21 and 28 Dec 1889, followed by A commentary in an
easy chair, 4 Jan–8 Nov 1890 (possibly terminated by the death of
Oliphant’s son on 8 Nov 1890). Aunt Anne, 6 Aug 1892. The
apology of age to youth, 24 Dec 1892. Venice, 24 June 1893. Prayers
for the dead, 15 Dec 1894. The seen and the unseen, 1 Feb 1896. The
land of the dollar, 13 Feb 1897.
Victoria Mag: A story of a voice, Aug–Sep 1863.
The Weekly Irish Times: A chance encounter, 6 Aug 1892.
Windsor Comet and Bazaar News: The dirty little angel, 6 Nov
1888.
Wit and Wisdom: Advice to our young women readers, 9 Apr 1892.
Poetry
The Christian knight’s vigil. A chant, addressed to a young minister
on the even of his ordination. The English Presbyterian
Messenger Dec 1850.
The shadow on the way. Blackwood’s Mag June 1853.
From India. Blackwood’s Mag Jan 1857.
The nation’s prayer. Blackwood’s Mag Jan 1862.
In the garden. Blackwood’s Mag Aug 1863; rptd in Garden memories,
ed Mary W. G. Wilson, Edinburgh, London and Boston nd.
Amen. – In the cathedral of St Andrews. Blackwood’s Mag Oct 1863.
Day and night. Blackwood’s Mag Jan 1865.
The innermost room. Blackwood’s Mag Mar 1867.
Alfred Tennyson. Spectator 15 Oct 1892.
A farewell. Spectator 2 Mar 1895.
22nd June 1897. Blackwood’s Mag June 1897.
Miscellaneous writings
On the edge of the world I lie, I lie. In Autobiography and letters, p.
438.
An elderly lover. 1885 (priv ptd 52 pp., copies at NLS). Drama.
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Obituaries and posthumous appreciations: Daily News 18 June 1897,
[W. Robertson Nicoll] Br Weekly 1 July 1897; [Norman NacColl]
Athenaeum 3 July 1897; Speaker 3 July 1897; [Meredith
Townsend] Spectator 3 July 1897; Speaker 3 July 1897; [Christabel
Coleridge] Monthly Packet 93 n.s. 14, Aug 1897; [Gertrude Slater]
Westminster Rev 148, Dec 1897; [Stephen Gwynn] Edinburgh Rev
190, July 1899; [Anne Thackeray Ritchie] From the Porch 1913:
21–8; Henry James, Notes on Novelists 1914.
Porter, Mrs Gerald. Annals of a publishing house, vol 3 1898.
Colby, R. and V. The equivocal virtue: Mrs Oliphant and the
Victorian literary marketplace. 1966.
M. Williams, Margaret Oliphant: a critical biography, London and
New York, 1986.
Jay, E. Mrs Oliphant: a fiction to herself: a literary life, Oxford 1995.
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Caleb Kniveton, the incendiary: a tale. 1833.
A sermon on Acts 20:25–27. 1834.