A couple of posts back I looked at what literary realism is – and why it mattered so much to the Victorians – using George Eliot’s Adam Bed...

A Victorian wedding My second foray into Mrs Oliphant has been to read the 1892 The Marriage of Elinor – a full-length novel abou...

Margaret Oliphant’s Chronicles of Carlingford (first published in Blackwood’s Magazine) deal with the lives of the inhabitants of a fi...