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A conference on the works of Victorian novelist Margaret Oliphant, featuring literary experts from the UK, US and New Zealand hosted by the university’s will celebrate the publication of , a 25 volume series edited by the School of English's Professor Joanne Shattock in collaboration with Professor Elisabeth Jay of Oxford Brookes University.

Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) was a popular and prolific Victorian writer with a career spanning almost fifty years and a bibliography featuring nearly one hundred novels, fifty short stories and various other non-fiction works.

Professor Shattock said: “Margaret Oliphant was in many ways ahead of her time as a writer.  In the range of her output, novels, biographies, journalism and a candid autobiography she was a forerunner of many professional writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”

The conference will take place from 9.30am till 6pm on Monday 6 July in the City Hub Suites of the Charles Wilson Building, �鶹��Ƶ.

Anyone wishing to register a place at the conference can do so by visiting the .