M. O. Oliphant

Life
1828-1897 [née Wilson]; Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland (1849); Merkland (1851); m. her cousin Francis Wilson Oliphant; contrib. novels to Blackwood’s Magazine, Salem Chapel (1863), one of four Chronicles of Carlingford, issued anon. 1863-76; Life of Edward Irving (1862); ed. foreign classics, and wrote introductions on Dante (1877); Cervantes (1880); Memoirs of Laurence Oliphant (1829-1888) [ODNB q.v.] and Alice Oliphant (1892). Also a Literary History of England in the end of the Eighteenth and the Beginning fo the Nineteenth Century (1882). ODNB

 

References
Belfast Public Library
holds M. O. Oliphant, Sheridan (1883).

 

Notes
Presumably author of House of Blackwood [n.d.; see under William Maginn, supra].

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