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OLIPHANT, Mrs. MARGARET. Autograph manuscript of the essay "'Tis Sixty Years Since." [N.p., 1897]. 19 pages, 4to, one page, oblong 8vo, and one page, oblong 12mo (inserted text attached to another page), written in ink in a miniscule hand on rectos only, with revisions throughout, some slight soiling, cloth slipcase.
An interesting working manuscript by the prolific Victorian novelist (author of some 95 works of fiction and other books) written during the final few months of her life (she died 25 June 1897) and prompted by the celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. In the essay, published in the May 1897 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, Mrs. Oliphant surveys the vast changes which had taken place during the sixty years of Queen Victoria's reign -- a period seen by her (predictably) as a golden age of progress in nearly all aspects of life. This essay is mentioned in Vineta and Robert Colby's book on Mrs. Oliphant, The Equivocal Virtue, pp. 148 and 207.
An interesting working manuscript by the prolific Victorian novelist (author of some 95 works of fiction and other books) written during the final few months of her life (she died 25 June 1897) and prompted by the celebration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. In the essay, published in the May 1897 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, Mrs. Oliphant surveys the vast changes which had taken place during the sixty years of Queen Victoria's reign -- a period seen by her (predictably) as a golden age of progress in nearly all aspects of life. This essay is mentioned in Vineta and Robert Colby's book on Mrs. Oliphant, The Equivocal Virtue, pp. 148 and 207.