![]() ![]() ![]() This book not only discusses Oliphant's oeuvre and critical reception but also explores aspects of Oliphant scholarship that have, until now, received scarce attention. ![]() When comparing Oliphant to other writers of her time, Sanders characterises her not as "a lesser Austen, Eliot or Trollope" but as a writer who matched her contemporaries in rich realist literature and, at times, surpassed them in wit and humour (26). Sanders deftly weaves together Oliphant's extensive journalism, biographies, historical writing, literary criticism, realist literature, and final turn toward ghost stories, all while noting the difficulty of choosing among Oliphant's hundreds of works. Valerie Sanders's study of Margaret Oliphant forms part of the Key Popular Women Writers Series by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, which aims to invigorate research on underrated yet influential women writers. ![]()
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