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A Country Gentleman and His Family (Dodo Press)
Contributor(s): Oliphant, Margaret Wilson (Author)

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 ISBN: 1409991326     ISBN-13: 9781409991328
Publisher: Dodo Press
OUR PRICE: $25.49  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6" W x 9" L (1.34 lbs) 416 pages
 
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Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (nee Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (1828-1897), Scottish novelist and historical writer, daughter of Francis Wilson, was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian. As a girl she constantly occupied herself with literary experiments, and in 1849 published her first novel Passages in the Life of Mrs Margaret Maitland. This she followed up in 1851 with Caleb Field. In May 1852 she married her cousin, Frank Wilson Oliphant. He had very delicate health. For the sake of his health they moved in January 1859 to Florence, and thence to Rome, where Frank Oliphant died. His wife, left almost entirely without resources, returned to England and took up the burden of supporting her three children by her own literary activity. In the course of her long struggle with circumstances, Mrs. Oliphant produced more than 120 separate works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories and volumes of literary criticism. These works include A Beleaguered City (1880); The Little Pilgrim: Further Experiences; The Open Door, and the Portrait (1881); A Little Pilgrim (1882); Old Lady Mary (1884); and Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death (1896).
 
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