Her ambitions for her sons remained unfulfilled. Cyril Francis, the elder, died in 1890, leaving a Life of Alfred de Musset, incorporated in his mother's Foreign Classics for English Readers. The younger, Francis (whom she called "Cecco"), collaborated with her in the Victorian Age of English Literature and won a position at the British Museum, but was rejected by Sir Andrew Clark, a famous physician. He died in 1894. With the last of her children lost to her, she had little further interest in life. Her health steadily declined and she died at Wimbledon on 20 June 1897. She was buried in Eton beside her sons. She left a personal estate worth a gross £4,932 and a net value £804. In the 1880s Oliphant acted as literary mentor of the Irish novelist Emily Lawless. During that time, Oliphant wrote several works of supernatural fiction, including a long ghost story A Beleaguered City (1880) and several short tales, including "The Open Door" and "Old Lady Mary". Oliphant also wrote historical fiction. Magdalen Hepburn (1854) is set during the Scottish Reformation, and features Mary, Queen of Scots and John Knox as characters. Gallery Works Oliphant wrote more than 120 works, including novels, books of travel and description, histories, and volumes of literary criticism. Novels Margaret Maitland (1849) Merkland (1850) Caleb Field (1851) John Drayton (1851) Adam Graeme (1852) The Melvilles (1852) Katie Stewart (1852) Harry Muir (1853) Ailieford (1853) The Quiet Heart (1854) Magdalen Hepburn (1854) Zaidee (1855) Lilliesleaf (1855) Christian Melville (1855) The Athelings (1857) The Days of My Life (1857) Orphans (1858) The Laird of Norlaw (1858) Agnes Hopetoun's Schools and Holidays (1859) Lucy Crofton (1860) The House on the Moor (1861) The Last of the Mortimers (1862) Heart and Cross (1863) The Chronicles of Carlingford in Blackwood's Magazine (1862–1865), republished as: The Executor (1861) The Rector (1861) The Doctor's Family (1861) Salem Chapel (1863) The Perpetual Curate (1864) Miss Marjoribanks (1865-66) Phoebe Junior (1876) A Son of the Soil (1865) Agnes (1866) Madonna Mary (1867) Brownlows (1868) The Minister's Wife (1869) The Three Brothers (1870) John: A Love Story (1870) Squire Arden (1871) At his Gates (1872) Ombra (1872) May (1873) Innocent (1873) The Story of Valentine and his Brother (1875) A Rose in June (1874) For Love and Life (1874) Whiteladies (1875) An Odd Couple (1875) The Curate in Charge (1876) Carità (1877) Young Musgrave (1877) Mrs. Arthur