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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 7:41:17 GMT -5
This modest and well-behaved Scotchwoman was when Christened Margaret Oliphant Wilson. In 1852 she married her cousin Frank Wilson Oliphant, and so became Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. Rather than drop the name "Wilson" altogether, or one of the Oliphants, her solution thenceforward was to style herself simply "Mrs. Oliphant". Ninety-five of her fictional works are deposited at the British Library, and she was the Queen's favourite novelist. "The Sorceress" is a latish three-volume novel, full of interest. Click
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Post by ahinton on Mar 1, 2017 8:41:18 GMT -5
This modest and well-behaved Scotchwoman was when Christened Margaret Oliphant Wilson. In 1852 she married her cousin Frank Wilson Oliphant, and so became Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. Rather than drop the name "Wilson" altogether, or one of the Oliphants, her solution thenceforward was to style herself simply "Mrs. Oliphant". Ninety-five of her fictional works are deposited at the British Library, and she was the Queen's favourite novelist. "The Sorceress" is a latish three-volume novel, full of interest. Click"Scotswoman", surely? (unless she was an habitual imbiber of the amber nectar) - but what an unfortunate way in which to style herself professionally! - as much so, indeed, as "George Eliot" and almost as much so as "Mrs. H. H. A. Beach"; the former should of course have been "Mary Anne Evans" and the latter "Amy Beach" as which she is indeed known today. No, "Margaret Wilson" it should have been, unless she'd personally chosen to adopt a nom-de-plume for good reason.
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