Quote by: Margaret Oliphant

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.


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  • NameMargaret Oliphant
  • DescriptionBritish writer
  • AliasesAuthor of A little pilgrim and Old Lady Mary,; Author of Chronicles of Carlingford,; Author of Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, Merkland, Adam Graeme, etc.,
  • BornApril 4, 1828
  • DiedJune 25, 1897
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionWoman Of Letters; Autobiographer; Novelist