Magazine, Vol. 98, 1865 "The Great Unrepresented," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 100, 1866 "Mill on the Subjection of Women," The Edinburgh Review, Vol. 130, 1869 "The Opium-Eater," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 122, 1877 "Russian and Nihilism in the Novels of I. Tourgeniéf," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 127, 1880 "School and College," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 128, 1880 "The Grievances of Women," Fraser's Magazine, New Series, Vol. 21, 1880 "Mrs. Carlyle," The Contemporary Review, Vol. 43, May 1883 "The Ethics of Biography," The Contemporary Review, July 1883 "Victor Hugo," The Contemporary Review, Vol. 48, July/December 1885 "A Venetian Dynasty," The Contemporary Review, Vol. 50, August 1886 "Laurence Oliphant," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 145, 1889 "Tennyson," Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 152, 1892 "Addison, the Humorist," Century Magazine, Vol. 48, 1894 “The Anti-Marriage League,” Blackwood's Magazine, Vol. 159, 1896 Biographies Oliphant's biographies of Edward Irving (1862) and her cousin Laurence Oliphant (1892), together with her life of Sheridan in the English Men of Letters series (1883), show vivacity and a sympathetic touch. She also wrote lives of Francis of Assisi (1871), the French historian Count de Montalembert (1872), Dante (1877), Miguel de Cervantes (1880), and the Scottish theologian John Tulloch (1888). Historical and critical works Historical Sketches of the Reign of George II (1869) (See George II.) The Makers of Florence (1876) A Literary History of England from 1760 to 1825 (1882) The Makers of Venice (1887) Royal Edinburgh (1890) Jerusalem, the Holy City, Its History and Hope (1891) The Makers of Modern Rome (1895) William Blackwood and his Sons (1897) "The Sisters Brontë." In: Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign (1897) At the time of her death, Oliphant was still working on Annals of a Publishing House, a record of the progress and achievement of the firm of Blackwood, with which she had been so long connected. Her Autobiography and Letters, which present a touching picture of her domestic anxieties, appeared in 1899. Only parts were written with a wider audience in mind: she had originally intended the Autobiography for her son, but he died before she had finished it. Critical reception Opinions on Oliphant's work are split, with some critics seeing her as a "domestic novelist", while others recognize her work as influential and important to the Victorian literature canon. Critical reception from Oliphant's contemporaries is divided as well. Among those who were not in favour of Oliphant was John Skelton, who took the view that Oliphant