Criminal Elastic
Susannah Clapp, 5 February 1987
Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography
by Merryn Williams.
Macmillan, 217 pp., £27.50, October 1986,0 333 37647 1 Show More
by Merryn Williams.
Macmillan, 217 pp., £27.50, October 1986,
Chronicles of Carlingford: The Perpetual Curate
by Mrs Oliphant.
Virago, 540 pp., £4.50, February 1987,0 86068 786 4 Show More
by Mrs Oliphant.
Virago, 540 pp., £4.50, February 1987,
Chronicles of Carlingford: Salem Chapel
by Mrs Oliphant.
Virago, 461 pp., £3.95, August 1986,0 86068 723 6 Show More
by Mrs Oliphant.
Virago, 461 pp., £3.95, August 1986,
Chronicles of Carlingford: The Rector
by Mrs Oliphant.
Virago, 192 pp., £3.50, August 1986,0 86068 728 7 Show More
by Mrs Oliphant.
Virago, 192 pp., £3.50, August 1986,
“... criminally elastic’. The circumstances of that life, and its literary products, are rehearsed in Merryn Williams’s Critical Biography with more speed than succinctness. Her book is presented as ‘the first full biography’ of its subject: in attempting to re-establish Mrs Oliphant’s reputation as a writer, it has as a somewhat lowering critical ... ”
