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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
The Seine Bridge at Asnières
'A beautiful story, skillfully told to expose the harsh truths of a troubled period of Ireland’s history.' Readers' Favorite.
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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Le Moulin de la Galette (1886)
In museum: National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Dimensions: height 61cm, width 50cm.
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Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
#art #french #monet #impressionism #19thCentury
Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
The white orchard (1888)
In museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Dimensions: height 81cm, width 60cm.
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Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
by Margaret Oliphant
edited by Anne M. Scriven
First published in 1890, KIRSTEEN is a startlingly modern novel that offers a fascinating perspective on women in Victorian society
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Association for Scottish LiteratureAnnual Volume 40 (2010)by Margaret Oliphant Edited by Anne M. Scriven Price: £9.95 Paperback ISBN 9780948877995 Price: £25.00 Hardback ISBN 9780948877988 ASLS, Glasgow, December 2010 Order from our bookshop Kirsteen is the…
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“THE OPEN DOOR… explores the borders between the natural physical world and the spiritual one. Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it.”
—Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s THE OPEN DOOR
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Leeds Trinity UniversityMargaret Oliphant’s ‘The Open Door’: Looking Back to Move Forward
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“The Victorian era witnessed the emergence of a new genre of science fiction, dystopian literature… Oliphant’s short story ‘The Land of Darkness’ is an important and overlooked example”
—Dr Oliver Tearle on Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’
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Interesting Literature · Dante Among the Machines: Margaret Oliphant’s ‘The Land of Darkness’In this week’s Dispatches from the Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle considers a curious dystopian story by Queen Victoria’s favourite novelist The terms ‘dystopian’ and ‘ecology’ both g…
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“The belief persists that nineteenth-century Scotland failed to develop a realist novel […] I have argued here that this supposition rests on the neglect of women’s writing”
—Prof Juliet Shields on “Oliphant & Co.”: Scottish women writers of the later 19th century
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The Bottle Imp · Oliphant & Co. - The Bottle ImpMargaret Oliphant (1828-96) has attained the obscure place in English literary history that she gloomily predicted for herself in her posthumously published autobiography: ‘No one will mention me in the same breath with George Eliot. And that is just. It is a little justification to myself to think how much better off she was. Should […]
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Virginia Woolf wrote that Margaret Oliphant had “sold her brain” & “prostituted her culture”…
—on BBC Sounds: Clare Walker Gore discusses Oliphant’s career, laments Woolf’s dismissal of her work, & shows why Oliphant deserves to be read today
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BBCBBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas, Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelfThe Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions
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“Oliphant… creates a series of insightful, witty & compelling narratives & characters that are deeply uncomfortable with the romantic conventions of the 19th-century novel”
—Laura Witz on Oliphant’s subversion of Victorian romance & gender conventions
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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/03/31/margaret-oliphant/
Dangerous Women ProjectMargaret Oliphant and the Romantic Novel - Dangerous Women ProjectOne of Scotland's lesser known but most prolific writers, Margaret Oliphant, subtly subverted 19th century society's expectations in her romance novels.
Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was born #OTD, 4 April – a 
“MISS MARJORIBANKS (1866) is surely the most interesting and entertaining example of a woman writing about men in the 19th century”
—Tom Crewe in the London Review of Books on Margaret Oliphant’s 1866 novel MISS MARJORIBANKS
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https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n14/tom-crewe/on-the-shelf
London Review of Books · Tom Crewe · On the Shelf: Mrs OliphantMargaret Oliphant, like Jane Austen, was a realist. Marriage was no guarantee of happiness. She could manage without a...
Your daily dose of French impressionist art by Claude Monet.
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Your daily dose of dutch art by Vincent van Gogh.
Street in Auvers-sur-Oise (1890)
In museum: Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland.
Dimensions: height 74cm, width 93cm.
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If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure, heat and cold,
If schooners, islands, and maroons
And Buccaneers and buried Gold,
And all the old romance, retold
Exactly in the ancient way,
Can please, as me they pleased of old,
The wiser youngsters of to-day…
—Robert Louis Stevenson’s introductory poem to TREASURE ISLAND
If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, writing to W.E. Henley about TREASURE ISLAND (24 Aug 1881)
Matthew Bevis on TREASURE ISLAND & some of its spinoffs, in the London Review of Books, 25 Oct 2012
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n20/matthew-bevis/kids-gone-rotten
London Review of Books · Matthew Bevis · Kids Gone Rotten: ‘Treasure Island’