Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Reader: Margaret Oliphant

 

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1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ...Margaret Oliphant Samuel RichardsonClarissa, or, the History of a Young LadyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I am working at Richardson now, and will send you the paper by the end of the week. I suppose I ought to be ashamed ...Margaret Oliphant Henry FieldingTom JonesPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti...Margaret Oliphant Edward JenkinsGinx's BabyPrint: Book
1850-1899'I sympathise most warmly in a great deal that is said in the 'Ginx's Baby' book, and do actually express my own senti...Margaret Oliphant unknownPeasant LifePrint: Book
1850-1899'If your old contributors had to yield the pas to such writers only as the author of the "Battle of Dorking" we should...Margaret Oliphant George ChesneyBattle of DorkingPrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose "Caesar...Margaret Oliphant CollinsunknownPrint: Book
1850-1899'I agree with you that Mr Collins's volumes are very good, but I don't agree with you about Mr Trollope, whose 'Caesar...Margaret Oliphant Anthony TrollopeCaesarPrint: Book
1850-1899'Pray tell him [Mr Kinglake] that I have been an admirer of his for - Heaven knows how long! - since the days when I w...Margaret Oliphant Alexander William KinglakeEothenPrint: Book
1850-1899'By the bye, how good and clever his (Major Lockhart's) verses are which you sent me...'Margaret Oliphant Major Lockhart[verses]Unknown
1850-1899'There is a novel not very long published by a Mr Allardyce called the "City of Sunshine", entirely about Indian (not ...Margaret Oliphant Alexander AllardyceCity of SunshinePrint: Book
1850-1899'I think very highly of Daudet as a novelist, but I know nothing of him personally.'Margaret Oliphant Alphonse Daudet[novels]Print: Book
1850-1899'I ought to have written last month to thank you and your able contributor for the flattering mention made of me in th...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I read with sad interest the references to your brother's battery in the 'Times' this morning.'Margaret Oliphant Times, ThePrint: Newspaper
1850-1899[Editorial commentary by Annie Coghill, Mrs Oliphant's cousin] 'George Macdonald's first book, or at any rate his firs...Margaret Oliphant George MacDonaldDavid ElginbrodManuscript: MS of a book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h...Margaret Oliphant John MorleyLife of George EliotPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the "Life of George Eliot," and for the kind and flattering inscription. I am very glad to h...Margaret Oliphant Review of the Life of George EliotPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Laurence Oliphant's sketches of the Druse villages are delightful, but his philosophy is something too tremendous. I...Margaret Oliphant Laurence OliphantLand of Gilead, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'I see by the "Athenaeum" that the Magazine is to be enlarged'.Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thanks for the old numbers; they are very interesting, and what vigour in them! - but one could not speak so strongly...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'It seems an excellent number, with the exception of the short story, which is not up to "Maga's" mark. The article o...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I have just been reading your paper about "Taking in Sail". I think I have told you before how much I feel with and ...Margaret Oliphant A.K.H. BoydTaking in SailPrint: Unknown
1850-1899'I don't at all know the books you refer to - I have not seen any of them. Mr Barrie's "Auld Licht Idylls," etc, I th...Margaret Oliphant J.M. BarrieAuld Licht IdyllsPrint: Book
1850-1899I don't feel quite sure with the last paper whether it is in earnest or not, or if your contributor means to make fun ...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical, Unknown
1850-1899I had half a mind, on reading a paper about the Poor Laws in Austria in your Magazine, to send you a sketch of Dr Chal...Margaret Oliphant [a paper on the Poor Laws in Austria]Print: Newspaper, Unknown
1850-1899I have done nothing but wade through Dean Stanley's Life this last week in the intervals of doing perfunctorily a litt...Margaret Oliphant A.P. StanleyA Selection from the writings of Dean StanleyPrint: Book
1850-1899I have several times intended to speak of the very great vigour and fresh start which the Magazine seems to me to have...Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899Mr Lang sent me several chapters to read in the early summer, which I thought were rather dull - tell it not in Gath -...Margaret Oliphant Andrew LangLife of LockhartPrint: Serial / periodicalManuscript: MS chapters of a book
1850-1899I suppose there was no man who had a greater command of the public in his day [than Bulwer Lytton]. To be sure, one m...Margaret Oliphant Marie CorelliPrint: Book
1850-1899'Miss Hutchison Stirling is I believe about to submit to you a little story which I read at her request some time ago ...Margaret Oliphant Amelia Hutchison StirlingMonsieur le ComteManuscript: Book in MS
1850-1899'Is it right to ask who was the author of a very short contribution called I think Tea at the farm, or some such name?...Margaret Oliphant Harriette CheapeTea at the MainsPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonWreckerPrint: Book
1850-1899'I should like to say my mind about Louis Stevenson's Wrecker and the Naulakhka - both of which are striking instances...Margaret Oliphant Rudyard KiplingNaulakhaPrint: Book
1850-1899'May I say that the new story in the Magazine begins very well? - the incident is striking and I think quite original,...Margaret Oliphant Sarah GrandSingularly DeludedPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see a delightful account of the origin of Bon Gaultier's parody of Locksley Hall in last night's St James's' by Sir...Margaret Oliphant St James'sPrint: Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh...Margaret Oliphant Graham TraversMona Maclean: Medical StudentPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'As for Mona Maclean I am afraid I could not say more than that it is a cleverish very youthful book, the author of wh...Margaret Oliphant F Marion CrawfordPrint: Book, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I see in the papers that that man Walter Scott is going to bring out shortly a collection of Anglicized versions of e...Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'[...] how extremely sorry I am for your great loss in Mr. Henderson. I saw a mention of him [Mr. Henderson] in the At...Margaret Oliphant Print: Advertisement, Newspaper, Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up ...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [Geo...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I have got two copies of "Felix Holt" - the last sent me by Mr Langford [...] I don't think I could say anything sati...Margaret Oliphant George EliotFelix Holt the RadicalPrint: Book
1850-1899'A propos of French literature, there is an advertisement of Lamartine in the papers which goes to one's heart, offeri...Margaret Oliphant [Advertisement of works by Lamartine]Print: Advertisement, Newspaper
1850-1899'Thank you for sending me the "Times" with the review. It is very gracious and good [...] I don't know whether I am a...Margaret Oliphant The TimesPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'When I went to read the chapter about the many mansions, even then I seemed to be stifled again'.Margaret Oliphant BiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'I was reading of Charlotte Bronte the other day, and could not help comparing myself with the picture more or less as...Margaret Oliphant Elizabeth GaskellLife of Charlotte BrontePrint: Book
1850-1899I cut out of a newspaper and put in here a little poem of Swinburne whom I have never loved. It is dated three years ...Margaret Oliphant SwinburneThrenodyPrint: Newspaper
1850-1899'[I] sit through the evening with Denny alone generally, often reading a little Italian'.Margaret Oliphant [Italian]Unknown
1850-1899'What a wonderful record is that journal of Sir Walter's which dear Annie Ritchie has sent me - and with what love one...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottJournalPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have found a little, not comfort, but fellowship in reading about Archbishop Tait. I did not like his book. I tho...Margaret Oliphant R.T. DavisonLife of Archibald Campbell TaitPrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the life of Mr Symonds, and it makes me almost laugh (though little laughing is in my heart) to t...Margaret Oliphant John Addington SymondsLife of SymondsPrint: Book
1850-1899'Since seeing Captain Blackwood yesterday I have read over 'Night and Morning'.Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonNight and MorningPrint: Book
1850-1899'If you wish me to take up Mr Caird's Sermons I will be glad to do it. I think myself that there is a little want of ...Margaret Oliphant Edward CairdSermonsPrint: Book
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant AthenaeumPrint: Advertisement, Serial / periodical
1850-1899We are very curious and interested about "Adam Bede", which we see advertised and criticised in the "Athenaeum".'Margaret Oliphant unknownReview of Adam BedePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant Blackwood's MagazinePrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Thank you very much for the Magazine - I am charmed with "St Stephen's". It is Sir Edward's, of course.'Margaret Oliphant ?Edward ?Bulwer LyttonSt Stephen'sPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'I was extremely glad to get your MS [...] I have of course some small criticism to make, but none of importance [...]...Margaret Oliphant R.H. StoryManuscript: Sheet, work in MS
1850-1899'I am delighted with Kinglake: has he steered quite clear of action for libel, or is it not within the bounds of possi...Margaret Oliphant A.W. KinglakeInvasion of the CrimeaPrint: Book
1850-1899'How delightful are Sir Edward's Essays. One seems to see his own special creation, the accomplished man of the world...Margaret Oliphant Edward Bulwer LyttonEssaysPrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'I must say I think the "Woman in White" a marvel of workmanship. I found it bear a second reading very well, and ind...Margaret Oliphant Wilkie CollinsThe Woman in WhitePrint: Book
1850-1899'Now about your literary questions, scoffer! Know that I read everything (except the politics, - I am a Radical, you...Margaret Oliphant David WingateMy Little WifePrint: Book
1850-1899'I have been reading the Life of Mr Symond, and it makes me almost laugh (though there is little laughing in my heart)...Margaret Oliphant Horatio Forbes BrownJohn Addington Symonds: A Biography Compiled fromPrint: Book
1850-1899On one occasion, he came to me, flourishing a paper wildly in the air...I thought he had suddenly inherited a fortune,...Margaret Oliphant Robert Louis StevensonThe Master of BallantraePrint: Book, Serial / periodical

 

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