As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

"Victor Hugo" The Contemporary Review Vol. She also wrote biographies of Francis of Assisi (1871) and Scottish theologian John Tulloch. With the last of her children lost to her Margaret Oliphant had but little further interest in life.

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer who usually wrote as Mrs.