The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant - Softcover

Oliphant, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551112760 ISBN 13: 9781551112763

Publisher: Broadview Press, 2001

Synopsis

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. 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 Autobiography 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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Broadview Literary Texts series is an effort to represent the ever-changing canon of literature in English by bringing together texts long regarded as classics with valuable, lesser-known literature. Newly type-set and produced on high-quality paper in trade paperback format, the Broadview Literary Texts series is a delight to handle as well as to read.

Each volume includes a full introduction, chronology, bibliography, and explanatory notes along with a variety of documents from the period, giving readers a rich sense of the world from which the work emerged.

About the Author:

Elisabeth Jay is a professor of English and Associate Head of the School of Humanities at Oxford Brookes University. The author of Margaret Oliphant: ‘A Fiction to Herself’: A Literary Life, Jay has written widely on nineteenth-century literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Broadview Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1551112760
• ISBN 13: 9781551112763
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 221
• Editor: Jay Elisabeth