Margaret Oliphant
Birth date: April 04, 1828
Died: June 25, 1897
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I was far more swept up in the drama of this 19th-century novel than I expected to be! I enjoy a good old-fashioned marriage plot, but Margaret Oliphant has a tendency to do a marriage plot with a slightly misandrist twist. The twist, here, is that Elinor marries a sexy man and won't listen to anyon...
I've only read two books by Mrs Oliphant (the other being A City Besieged, which is fascinating, weird, and extremely different from this), and enjoyed both. But Miss Marjoribanks makes it very clear why she was a bestselling author in her day. It's a power fantasy, but not unalloyed; it's delightf...
Some books if you can't catch the rhythm of just became joyless works you have to force march yourself through.I kept trying to get through this book, but the writing, flow, and the characters were just too much for me to overcome. I gave up. I know that that was supposed to be a comedy of sorts and...
bookshelves: winter-20132014, victorian, published-1876, under-50-ratings, women, lit-richer, britain-england, play-dramatisation, series, filthy-lucre, families, classic Read from January 02 to 03, 2014 Phoebe Junior by Margaret Oliphant. Description: Margaret Oliphant was one of the most proli...
bookshelves: filthy-lucre, fradio, published-1883, winter-20132014, victorian, cheshire, britain-england, satire, amusing, re-visit-2014, women Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from January 02 to 03, 2014 Hester by Margaret Oliphant R4 dramaBBC BLURB: Penelope Wilton and Lyndsey Marshal ...
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