“One reason Oliphant’s ghost stories are so powerful is they are hard – her BELEAGUERED CITY reminds me of Camus’s LA PESTE”
Dr Ellen Moody compares Margaret Oliphant’s “Old Lady Mary” with Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”
https://reveriesunderthesignofausten.wordpress.com/2020/12/24/margaret-oliphants-old-lady-mary-a-reply-to-dickenss-christmas-carol/
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #Oliphant #MargaretOliphant #Dickens #ghoststories #Christmas #gothic
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