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100 1 $aJay, Elisabeth.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79050413
245 10 $aMrs Oliphant, "a fiction to herself" :$ba literary life /$cElisabeth Jay.
260 $aOxford :$bClarendon Press ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c1995.
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300 $ax, 355 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [340]-347) and index.
520 $aAs 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.
520 8 $aOut 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.
520 8 $aMrs. 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.
600 10 $aOliphant,$cMrs.$q(Margaret),$d1828-1897.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50048460
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zScotland$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aWomen novelists, Scottish$y19th century$vBiography.
852 00 $bglx$hPR5114$i.J39 1995
852 00 $bbar$hPR5114$i.J39 1995