biography
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Oliphant, Margaret
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née Wilson
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1828–97)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Wallyford, East Lothian, E Scotland, UK. She wrote from an early age, and married her cousin, Francis Oliphant. Widowed in 1859, she wrote from then on to support her own and her brother's children. Her first novel, Mrs Margaret Maitland (1849), began a prolific career in literature extending to more than 100 books and some 200 contributions to Blackwood's Magazine. From The Chronicles of Carlingford, a series of novels dealing with Scottish life, Salem Chapel (1863) and Miss Marjoribanks (1866) received particular praise. She also wrote histories and biographies, including Annals of a Publishing House: William Blackwood and His Sons (1897). |
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