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.

"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.