Margaret Oliphant Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant Oliphant (born April 4, 1828, Wallyford, Midlothian, Scot.—died June 25, 1897, Windsor, near London) was a prolific Scottish novelist, historical writer, and biographer best known for her portraits of small-town life. In 1852 she married her cousin, Francis Wilson Oliphant, an artist in stained glass, and settled in London. Widowed in 1859, she began a wearisome struggle to provide, by writing, for her children and later for her brother’s children. Between 1849 and...