{"id":242,"date":"2019-11-29T20:03:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2019-11-29T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T20:16:34","slug":"the-library-window-by-margaret-oliphant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/the-library-window-by-margaret-oliphant\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Library Window&#8221; by Margaret Oliphant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Margaret_Oliphant_Wilson_Oliphant.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" width=\"164\" height=\"220\"\/><figcaption>By Frederick Augustus Sandys (1829-1904) &#8211; National Portrait Gallery, London, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=8715174<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This suggestive ghost tale was first published in <em>Blackwood&#8217;s<\/em> in 1896, and has been reprinted many times since. Oliphant was a prolific Scottish writer whose works usually appeared under the byline &#8220;Mrs. Oliphant&#8221;, as was common at the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This classic tale wasn&#8217;t used in <em>Weird Women <\/em>mainly due to length (and to the fact that we already had a number of other ghost stories), but we still love it and are happy to share it here, with our annotations.<\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Oliphant-w-notes-converted.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Oliphant-w-notes-converted<\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This suggestive ghost tale was first published in Blackwood&#8217;s in 1896, and has been reprinted many times since. Oliphant was a prolific Scottish writer whose works usually appeared under the byline &#8220;Mrs. Oliphant&#8221;, as was common at the time. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/the-library-window-by-margaret-oliphant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}