Editor: Linda H. Peterson
in The Selected Works of Margaret
Oliphant, ed. Joanne Shattock and Elisabeth Jay. Pickering & Chatto,
2012.
This new scholarly edition reproduces the original 1899 Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M O W
Oliphant, together with entries from her personal diaries for 1887, 1888
and 1896. It includes annotations of the full text, as well as textual variants
from the original manuscript and for the second and third editions. The volume
is part of a large editorial project on Oliphant’s works. Part I, “Literary
Criticism and Literary History,” includes four volumes: Literary Criticism,
1854–69; Literary Criticism, 1870–76; Literary Criticism, 1877–86; and The
Victorian Age of English Literature. In addition to the Autobiography, Part II,
“Literary Criticism, Autobiography, Biography and Historical Writing,” includes
Literary Criticism, 1887–97; Writings on Biography (2 vols.); and Historical
Writing. For future volumes, see www.pickeringchatto.com/oliphant.
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