Excuse my dust: Margaret Oliphant
Where to start - a small selection of her works.
- Novels – Miss Majoribanks (Austen’s “Emma”); Phoebe Junior (Carlingford series); Hester (woman as banker!); Kirsteen (seamstress and successful business woman)
- Ghost stories - “The Library Window”
- Autobiography - moving account of the difficulties of her personal life; her children's deaths; her struggle with depression; her religious doubts; her enormous willpower; good insight into publishing business and competition with other writers
Illustration for Oliphant’s haunted and haunting “The Library Window”
Andrea Schwedler 2011
Quotes and Bbliography:
Quotes 1, Quotes 2, Quotes 3, Bibliography