num_pages: 221
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
titlecomplete: The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant
characters: Margaret Oliphant
genres: British Literature, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Classics, Victorian
ratings_count: 38
publisher: Broadview Press