Female : Prolific Novelist (nearly 100), biographer, travel writer, and writer of ghost & short stories Presbyterian. Home educated. Married 1852 to her cousin Francis Wilson Oliphant. When he died of TB in 1869 she began writing in earnest to pay the bills. Died of cancer

Nationality : Scottish Place of Birth : Wallyford, East Lothian

Date of Birth : 1828 Date of Death : 1897 Age : 69

1849-1860
Passages in the Life of Miss Margaret Maitland (1849)
Katie Stewart (1853 Blackwood)
Magdalen Hepburn : A Story of the Scottish Reformation (1854 H & B) - 3 vols
Zaidee : A Romance (1856)
The Laird of Norlaw : A Scottish Story (1858 Hurst & Blackett) - 3 vols
Agnes Hopetoun's Schools and Holidays - The Experience of a Little Girl (1859 Macmillan)
Lucy Crofton (1860 Hurst & Blackett) (1860 Harper NY)

1861-1880
The Last of the Mortimers : A Story in Two Voices (1862 H & B) - 3 vols
The Life of Edward Irving : Minister of the National Scotch Church (1862 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
Salem Chapel (1863)
The Chronicles of Carlingford : The Perpetual Curate (1864 Blackwood) - 3 vols
Miss Marjoriebanks (1866 Blackwood) - 3 vols
Days of My Life (1868) - autobiography
The Three Brothers (1870 H & B) - 3 vols
Memoir of Count de Montalembert (1872 Blackwood) - 2 vols
The Makers of Florence : Dante, Giotto, Savonarola and their City
(1876 Macmillan) - Prof Delamotte
Annals of a Publishing House (1879)
A Beleaguered City (1880 Macmillan)

1881-1890
A Beleaguered City (1881 Macmillan)
A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen (1882 Macmillan)
The Literary History of England at the end of the 18thC, beginning of 19thC
(1882 Macmillan) - 3 vols
The Ladies Lindores (1883)
In Trust : The Story of a Lady and Her Lover (c1883 Longmans Green 6/-)
The Wizard's Son (1884 Macmillan) - 3 vols
The Stories of the Seen and Unseen (1885 Blackwood)
Dante (1887 Blackwood)
The Makers of Venice : Doges, Conquerors, Painters & Men of Letters (1887 London)
The Land of Darkness, along with Some Further Experiences of the Little Pilgrim
(1888 Macmillan) - Anon
Lady Car : The Sequel of a Life (1889)
Royal Edinburgh : Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets (1890 London)

1891-1900
Memoir of the Life of Laurence & Alice Oliphant (1891 Blackwood) - 2 vols
Jerusalem : The Holy City - Its History and Hope (1891 Macmillan) - Hamilton Aide
The Railway Man & His Children (1892 Macmillan)
The Victorian Age of English Literature (1892)
The Sorceress (1893)
The Reign of Queen Anne (1894 Macmillan)
A Child's History of Scotland (1895)
The Makers of Modern Rome (1895 Macmillan) - Henry P Riviere & Joseph Pennell
The Lady's Walk (1897 Methuen)
The Sisters Bronte (1897)
Annals of a Publishing House : William Blackwood and His Sons - Their Magazine & Friends
(1897-8 Blackwood) - 3 vols
The Autobiography and Letters (1899 Blackwood) - edited by Mrs Harry Coghill
Queen Victoria : A Personal Sketch (1900 Cassell)

20thC
Stories of the Seen and Unseen (1902 Blackwood)
A History of Eighteenth Century Literature
Memoir of Principal Tulloch
Cervantes
Old Mr Tredgold (Longmans Green)
Moliere
Dress
Selected Short Stories of the Supernatural (1985 Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh)
The Autobiography : Complete Text (1990 Oxford UP)

READING
V & R A Colby : The Equivocal Virtue - Mrs Oliphant and the Victorian Literary Market Place
(1966 Archon Books, NY)
Merryn Williams : Margaret Oliphant - A Critical Biography (1986 Macmillan)
J S Clarke : Margaret Oliphant - A Bibliography : Victorian Research Guides XI
(1986 Univ of Queensland)
Elisabeth Jay : A Fiction to Herself - Mrs Oliphant, A Literary Life (1995 OUP £25)
J S Clarke : Margaret Oliphant - Non-Fictiona Writings - A Bibliography (1998 Univ of Queensland)