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Part II: Literary Criticism, Autobiography, Biography and Historical Writing Volume Editors: Valerie Sanders, Joanne Shattock, Joanne Wilkes, Linda H Peterson, Trev Lynn Broughton, David Jasper, Francis O'Gorman and Tess Cosslett Volume 5: Literary Criticism, 1887-97 Articles from 'The Old School Saloon', Blackwood's Magazine (1887-92); 'The Rev W Lucas Collins', Blackwood's Magazine (1887); 'Mrs Craik', Macmillan's Magazine (1887); Articles from 'A Fireside Commentary', St James's Gazette (January-June 1888); 'A Forthcoming Book and its Author', St James's Gazette (1888); Articles from 'A Commentary from an Easy-Chair', the Spectator (1889-90); 'The Seen and the Unseen', the Spectator (1896); 'Tennyson', Blackwood's Magazine (1892); Articles from 'Things in General', Atlanta (1893-4); 'The Letters of Sir Walter Scott', Blackwood's Magazine (1894); Articles from 'The Looker-on', Blackwood's Magazine (1894-6); 'The Anti-Marriage League', Blackwood's Magazine (1896); 'John Gibson Lockhart', Blackwood's Magazine (1896) Volume 6: The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M O W Oliphant (1899) The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs M O W Oliphant (1899) Appendix A: Illustrations from the 1899 edition Appendix B: Diary entry for 1887 Appendix C: Diary entry for 1888 Appendix D: Diary entry for 1896 Volume 7: Writings on Biography I Excerpts from The Life of Edward Irving, Minister of the National Scotch Church, London (1862); 'The Life of Her Majesty the Queen' (1880); 'The Ethics of Biography' (1883); 'The Sisters Bronte' (1897) Volume 8: Writings on Biography II Sheridan (1883); Thomas Chalmers, Preacher, Philosopher and Statesman (1893); Memoir of the Life of John Tulloch (1888); Memoir of the Life of Laurence Oliphant, and of Alice Oliphant, His Wife (1891) Volume 9: Historical Writing The Makers of Venice (1887); 'Margaret of Scotland, Atheling - Queen and Saint' (1899); 'Introduction' from Jerusalem, the Holy City (1891)

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'if the initial volumes are representative of the remainder of the project, VPR readers will want to encourage their libraries to purchase these first two parts and to place standing orders for the remainder.' Victorian Periodicals Review 'Gathering history, biography, and literary criticism along with fiction, the editors of this collection show how one extraordinarily prolific writer represented - in all its diversity - the spirit of her age.' New Books Online 19