Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant
Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant, was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works encompass "domestic realism, the historical novel and tales of the supernatural"...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1828
spring men poverty
Spring cold is like the poverty of a poor man who has had a fortune left him - better days are coming ...
travel home museums
As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
compassion imagination firsts
imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ...
husband work equality
I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.