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Author Description Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) 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".<br /><br />Margaret Oliphant was born at Wallyford, near Musselburgh, East Lothian, and spent her childhood at Lasswade (near Dalkeith), Glasgow and Liverpool. As a girl, she constantly experimented with writing. In 1849 she had her first novel published: <i>Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland</i> which dealt with the Scottish Free Church movement. It was followed by <i>Caleb Field</i> in 1851, the year in which she met the publisher William Blackwood in Edinburgh and was invited to contribute to the famous <i>Blackwood's Magazine</i>. The connection was to last for her whole lifetime, during which she contributed well over 100 articles, including, a critique of the character of Arthur Dimmesdale in <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7799.Nathaniel_Hawthorne" title="Nathaniel Hawthorne" rel="nofollow noopener">Nathaniel Hawthorne</a>'s <i>The Scarlet Letter</i>.<br />

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