Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles. This is the most ambitious critical edition of her work.

Product Description: Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) had a prolific literary career that spanned almost fifty years. She wrote some 98 novels, fifty or more short stories, twenty-five works of non-fiction, including biographies and historic guides to European cities, and more than three hundred periodical articles...read more

Product Description: The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War...read more

Product Description: This is the standard primary bibliography of English literature. The third edition, of which Volume 4, 1800-1900, is the first to be published, presents a comprehensive revision and updating of the two previous editions. It offers authoritative individual bibliographies, compiled by specialists of international reputation, of writers in all genres--poetry, fiction, drama and the novel--together with sections compiled by specialists on children's literature, historical and travel writing, philosophy and science, political economy, the literature of sports, education, journalism, book production and literary relations with the continent...read more

Product Description: These new essays by leading scholars explore nineteenth-century women's writing across a spectrum of genres. The book's focus is on women's role in and access to literary culture in the broadest sense, as consumers and interpreters as well as practitioners of that culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book is an ideal beginner's guide to British women's writing from the fourteenth century to the present. Concise, informative, and well organized, it has entries on 400 writers from Aphra Behn to Jeanette Winterson, Mary Wollestonecraft to Barbara Cartland...read more

Product Description: Documenting the important influence of quarterlies on the cultural and political life in early Victorian times, this volume looks at the three publications which were aligned with the three main political parties. The "Edinburgh" wrote for the Whigs, the "Quarterly" for the Tories and the "Westminster" for the radicals...read more