Margaret oliphant autobiography analysis

The illuminating words of Q. D. Leavis in the above mentioned prefaces, of Merryn Williams’s in Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography (), and of Elizabeth Jay’s in Mrs. Oliphant, A Fiction to Herself – A Literary Life () turned the tide and Oliphant’s literary fortune. The critical analysis is framed by the concept of autobiography as a landscape of the self, where the strategies of self-representation are approached both as a political act and as a simple story of a woman. Early years First steps Professional growth Public recognition Peak period Later years Public interest Professional activity Media attention
^ According to Elizabeth Jay, in the introduction of Margaret Oliphant's Autobiography (published in ), p. 9, one of these children died aged one day, another, Stephen Thomas, at nine weeks, and Marjorie, the other daughter, at about eight months.