Böcker av Margaret Oliphant

HESTER, first publsihed in 1883, is both a remarkable portrayal of two strong women and a fascinating study of capitalism and the family - those two solid mainstays of Victorian England.

THE PERPETUAL CURATE is one of her Chronicles of Carlingford. Exquisite and entertaining comedies of Victorian provincial Society.

After 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.