"We Who Have Been Bred Upon Sir Walter": Margaret Oliphant, Sir Walter Scott, And Women's Literary History (Critical Essay‪)‬

As A LITERARY CRITIC, Margaret Oliphant was not easily impressed, even by the greatest offer contemporaries. Her publisher John Blackwood gently advised bringing a little more warmth to an evaluation of Dickens' fiction published shortly after his death; her praise of George Eliot, a writer whom in general she admired highly, was also often qualified by doubts and reservations.