Queen Eleanor and fair Rosamond

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Label

Queen Eleanor and fair Rosamond

Statement of responsibility

Margaret Oliphant ; contributing editor Pam Perkins

Creator

• Oliphant, (Margaret), Mrs., 1828-1897

Contributor

• Perkins, Pamela Ann

Author

• Oliphant, (Margaret), Mrs., 1828-1897

Editor

• Perkins, Pamela Ann

Subject

• Marriage
• Marriage
• Marriage -- Fiction
• Middle-aged women
• Middle-aged women
• Middle-aged women -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Margaret Oliphant was widely recognized at the time of her death as one of the great Victorian writers of fiction-and, after a long period of eclipse, her fiction has in the twenty-first century begun to be again considered alongside that of such writers as Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy. Yet many of Oliphant's works remain unavailable-including many of the works of short fiction that arguably constitute her most accessible and most accomplished body of work. In introducing the collection in which the novella Queen Oliphant and Fair Rosamond first appeared in book form, J.M. Barrie argued that Oliphant's stories represent "some of her finest work-indeed nearly all of her deepest imaginings have appeared i̥n this form." He went on to suggest that, in Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond Oliphant "gives us ḁs terrible and grim a picture of a man tired of fifty years of respectability as was ever written." At least as important is the picture she gives us of the wife of that man. It is the wife, indeed, who is at the center of Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamond, which recounts the story of Mr. and Mrs. Lycett-Landon-"two middle-aged people in the fullness of life and prosperity"-and of what becomes of their marriage when Mr. Lycett-Landon (of the Liverpool office of cotton-brokers Lycett, Landon, Fareham & Co.) becomes uncommunicative while on an extended business trip to the company's London office. In addition to an illuminating introduction, this edition includes a variety of background materials that help to set this important and engaging work of short fiction in its literary and historical context."--

Member of

• Broadview anthology of British literature edition

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Dewey number

823.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR5113

LC item number

.Q44 2019

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Broadview anthology of British literature edition