Children and teenagers


Margaret Oliphant included children in many of her novels and stories. In the ones listed below a child or teenager is important to the story line; and moreover the character's thoughts are revealed as we experience the world from his or her own point of view. Among many fine portraits of children and teens are Violet in Harry Muir, another memorable Violet in Valentine and His Brother, little Geoff in A Country Gentleman, Jock (a child in The Greatest Heiress and a teenager in Sir Tom), and the teenage girl in The Library Window.

While these children are in the main sympathetic, Madonna Mary explores the psyche of Mary's youngest boy Will, discontented and "twisted" in his view of the world - and whose misunderstanding of his mother's circumstances results in his launching a scandal which may be impossible to quell.


Adam Graeme of Mossgray
Novel1852
Katie Stewart, a True Story
Novel1852
Harry Muir, a Story of Scottish Life
Novel1853
Zaidee, a Romance
Novel1854
Agnes Hopetoun's Schools and Holidays
Novel1858
The House on the Moor
Novel1860
A Boy of Fife
Short Fiction1861
Mrs Clifford's Marriage
 Novel1863
A Son of the Soil
Novel1863
Madonna Mary
Novel1866
Ombra
 Novel1872
The Two Marys
Novel1872
The Story of Valentine and his Brother
Novel1874
Carità
Novel1876
The Primrose Path
Novel1878
The Greatest Heiress in England
Novel1879
The Fugitives
Novel1879
Sir Tom
Novel1883
Hester, a Story of Contemporary Life
Novel1883
The Covenanter's Daughter
Short Fiction1884
A Country Gentleman and His Family
Novel1885
The Son of His Father
Novel1886
Cousin Mary
Novel1887
A House in Bloomsbury
 Novel1893
John
Short Fiction1894
The Library Window
Short Fiction1896
The Unjust Steward, or the Minister's Debt
Novel1896

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