Mrs Oliphant: A Fiction to Herself: A Literary Life Hardcover - 1995
by Elisabeth Jay
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As an expatriate Scots woman, Mrs Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) started her prolific and accomplished writing career at three removes from the centre of Victorian literary life. Widowed early, and left with not only her own children, but two brothers, a nephew, and two nieces to support, she became keenly aware of the discrepancy between society's assumptions about woman's role and her own position as a female breadwinner in the male-dominated world of nineteenth-century publishing. Out of the contrast between her wryly ironic view of life and the conventions of Victorian fiction came the disconcerting questioning of accepted ideologies of the family, religious orthodoxy, and a woman's place in society that characterizes her writing. Mrs. Oliphant: A Fiction to Herself contains an often surprising portrait of the professional Victorian woman writer. By choosing to interweave the life and the work of Mrs Oliphant, Elisabeth Jay's lucid and comprehensive study raises for consideration the way in which a particular woman writer perceived her own life, and the wider question of whether women writers have been well-served by the mythological structures of male biography.
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- Title Mrs Oliphant: A Fiction to Herself: A Literary Life
- Author Elisabeth Jay
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher OUP Oxford, Oxford
- Date 1995-03-23
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780198128755 / 0198128754
- Weight 1.59 lbs (0.72 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Novelists, Scottish - 19th century -, Oliphant
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94003528
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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