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Hard cover in three volumes (complete), 8vo in dark blue, linen-effect paper covered board, titles in gold to spine, all with the original pictorial dust jackets and now in mylar protectors. CONDITION: Fine in Fine d/j. One of this bookseller's favorite writers, **AUTHOR Mrs. Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (1828-1897) born near Edinburgh, was one of Britain's most prolific women writers of the nineteenth century, and a favorite of Queen Victoria. Her 167 novels and short stories published during her lifetime, were all achieved without a formal education, and despite a litany of personal tragedy. These included a number ghost stories, biographies, travel writing and historical titles. As a young widow, she worked while still mourning the death of several of her children, nursed her ailing artist husband (her cousin, also named Oliphant,) of tuberculosis on a disastrous foreign curative trip abroad. She would take on financial responsibility for an alcoholic brother's family as well. The "Carlingford Chronicles," brought her first real monetary success and the patronage of William Blackwood's publishing firm, purveyor's of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, who employed Mrs. Oliphant for years thereafter as a contributor, critic and columnist from the 1860's. **CONTENTS include VOL. 1: 388pp. includes the novel, " The Complete Little Pilgrim Series," four novelettes: "The Secret Chamber," "The Land of Suspense," A Visitor and His Opinions," and "Earthbound," plus two short stories, "Dies IIrae, The Story of a Spirit in Prison," and "A Visitor and his Opinions." VOL 2: 384 pp. Two novellas, "Old Lady Mary," and "A Beleaguered City," plus four novelettes: " "The Open Door," The Lady's Walk," "The Library Window," and "The Portrait." VOL. 3: p.492 novel: "The Wizard's Son," plus the short story," The Little Dirty Angel." [See our related listing 9123.]
Ref: HALLO 9277
$140.00