Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)

Margaret Oliphant

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr. Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to raise the tone with her select Thursday evening parties. Optimistic, resourceful and blithely unimpeded by self-doubt, Lucilla is a superior being in every way, not least in relation to men. This Penguin Classics edition of Miss Marjoribanks (1866) is introduced and edited by Margaret Oliphant's acclaimed biographer Elisabeth Jay.

Miss Marjoribanks

'Human nature may be easy to see through, but it is very hard to understand.' The ageing Catherine Vernon, jilted in her youth, has risen to power in a man's world as head of the family bank. She thinks she sees through everyone and rules over a family of dependents with knowing cynicism. But there are two people in Redborough who resist her. One is Hester, a young relation with a personality as strong as Catherine's, and as determined to find a role for herself. The other is Edward,Catherine's favourite, whom she treats like a son. Conflict between young and old is inevitable, and in its depiction of the complex relationships that develop between the three principal characters, Publishing October 2003 (exact date?) Margaret Oliphant is one of the great Victorian novelists, and this edition establishes her rediscovered importance.

Hester

Salem Chapel

Jenni Calder

A prolific writer with many novels to her name, Margaret Oliphant could produce her few supernatural tales 'only when they came to me'. And they came with the twilight uncertainties and the philosophical depth of 'The Library Window', or with the extraordinary vision of purgatory imagined as modern city life mixed with metaphysical terror in 'The Land of Darkness' or in A Beleaguered City, her extraordinary short novel of the returning dead.Like the old Scottish ballads where the dead and the living rub shoulders, these remarkable tales are among Oliphant's finest work, mixing the subtlety of Henry James with the uncanny strangeness of George MacDonald or David Lindsay.

A Beleaguered City and Other Tales of the Seen and the Unseen

The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M.O.W. Oliphant

Two Stories of the Seen and the Unseen

The Open Door [and ] The Portrait

Cervantes

A Chapter of Recent French History

Memoir of Count de Montalembert

Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne : a Story of the Seen and the Unseen

Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret)

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