Description
Book SynopsisAfter the death of Margaret Oliphant - the prolific nineteenth century novelist, biographer, essayist, reviewer, and prominent voice on the "woman question" - two well-intending relatives took the autobiographical manuscripts she composed over a thirty-year period, and recomposed them to suit the model of a conventional memoir. In the process, they suppressed more than a quarter of the material. Based on the original manuscripts, the Broadview edition now makes available the missing text in its original order, and the restored Autobiogrpahy of Margaret Oliphant portrays a woman of scathing irony, anger and grief.
Part of Broadview's Nineteenth-Century British Autobiographies series, this edition also includes extensive excerpts from Oliphant's diaries.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Margaret Oliphant: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Autobiography
Appendix A: Diary entry for Christmas night, 1887
Appendix B: 1888 Diary
Appendix C: 1896 Diary
Select Bibliography
Index
