Author: Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret), 1828-1897 (Keywords)

This volume collects one novel and four short, ghost stories and may be of interest to students of Victorian literature, those interested in Scotland and ghost story readers.

Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant - plus an episode of Reading Aloud, with extracts from her autobiography. Sometimes called 'the feminist Trollope', Margaret Oliphant wrote over 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging ...

'The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow' and 'Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund' are both stories about women left on their own to run their own households. Each ends, not with a marriage as is usual, but with the break-up of a marriage.

This is the fifth and final volume of Mrs Oliphant's saga of English provincial life. We return to the country town of Carlingford where the arrival of Phoebe Junior sets tongues wagging. Mrs Oliphant also wrote "Salem Chapel", "The Doctor's Family", "The Perpetual Curate" and "Miss Marjoribanks".