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Against the long years when family bonds make up all that is happiest in life, there must always be reckoned those moments of agitation and revolution, during which the bosom of a family is the most unrestful and disturbing place in existence.

Margaret Oliphant

II have always been a disappointment to my friends. I have no gift of talk, not much to say; and though I have always been an excellent listener, that only succeeds under auspicious circumstances.

Margaret Oliphant

I think reading a novel is almost next best to having something to do.

Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant

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Born: April 4, 1828

Died: June 25, 1897 (aged 69)

Bio: Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant 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".

Known for:

Miss Marjoribanks (1866)
Chronicles of Carlingford (1870)
Phoebe, Junior (1876)
A Beleaguered City (1880)
Hester (1883)

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