OLIPHANT, LAURENCE

ŏlˈĭfənt, 1829–88, British author, b. Capetown, South Africa. Although he wrote some valuable travel books, he is probably best remembered for his fascinating life. The son of a judge, he became a lawyer and later secretary to Lord Elgin. He was a correspondent for the London Times during the Crimean War, went with Elgin to China, was an associate of Garibaldi, and traveled all over the world. In 1867 he became a disciple of Thomas Lake Harris in a religious community at Brocton, N.Y. His writings include several travel books, notably A Journey to Katmandu (1852); two novels, Piccadilly (1866) and Altiora Peto (1883); an autobiography, Episodes in a Life of Adventure (1887); and Scientific Religion (1888). He and his first wife, Alice Le Strange, wrote a curious book, Sympneumata: Evolutionary Forces Now Active in Man (1885), inspired by Harris and supposedly dictated by a spirit. After Alice's death Oliphant married (1888) Rosamond Dale Owen, granddaughter of Robert Owen. They established a colony of Jews in Palestine.

See her My Perilous Life in Palestine (1928); biography by his cousin, Margaret Oliphant (1891); study by V. and R. A. Colby (1966).

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The Early Swing Era, 1930 to 1941
Book by Dave Oliphant; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: Jazz Musicians--United States, Jazz--1931-1940--History And Criticism, Swing (Music)--History And Criticism
...Michael, 29 Freeman, Bud, 6 8 , 104 , 107 , 109 10 , 114 17 , 133 , 266 , 325 , 367 70 , 373 , 375 78 , 407 8 Freeman, Laurence, 198 Frenesi, 128 Frisco Flo, 188 Froeba, Frank, 327 , 372 75 , 400 Froggy Bottom, 199 , 203 4 Frye, Carl, 244 Fuller...
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The Filibuster: The Career of William Walker
Book by Laurence Greene; Bobbs-Merrill, 1937
Subjects: Nicaragua--History--Filibuster War, 1855-1860, Walker, William--1824-1860
...Walker, 214 Obraje, taken by Canas, 270 Olancho, Honduras, 88 Old Days in Nashville, Tennessee , quoted, 20 Oliphant, Laurence, Patriots and Filibusters , quoted, 144 Omotepe Island anchorage of lake boats, 275 hospital base, 247 attacked...
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Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885
Book by Laurence Shore; University of North Carolina Press, 1986
Subjects: Capitalists And Financiers--Southern States--History--19th Century, Slavery--Southern States, Southern States--Economic Conditions, Southern States--History--1775-1865, Southern States--History--1865-1877
...Charleston: Walker and James, 1851. Simms, William Gilmore. The Letters of William Gilmore Simms. Edited by Mary C. S. Oliphant, et al. 5 vols. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1952- 56. _____. The Sense of the Beautiful . An...
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A Victorian Album: Some Lady Novelists of the Period
Book by Lucy Poate Stebbins; Columbia University Press, 1946
Subjects: English Fiction--19th Century--History And Criticism, English Fiction--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Women And Literature--Great Britain--History--19th Century
Oliphant, Francis Romano Cecco , 174 , 176 , 183 , 186 Oliphant, Frank, 175 Oliphant, Laurence, 180 Oliphant, Maggie, 170 , 176 , 181 Oliphant, Margaret, 6 , 9 , 52 , 76 , III, 131, 135 , 155-91...
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Escape to Utopia: The Communal Movement in America
Book by Everett Webber; Hastings House, 1959
Subjects: Collective Settlements--United States
...of John H. , 367 Oliphant, Lady mother of Laurence , 324 ff. Oliphant, Laurence English author, associate of T. L. Harris...daughter of Robert Dale Owen, second wife of Laurence Oliphant , 338 ff. Owen, William son of Robert , 123...
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Jacobite History to National Song: Robert Burns and Carolina Oliphant (Baroness Nairne)
Journal article by Carol McGuirk; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 47, 2006
Subjects: Burns, Robert (1759-96), European history, Literary criticism, Oliphant, Carolina, Poetry, Poets
...Burns never met Carolina Oliphant, but she was well aware...brother, the younger Laurence Oliphant of Cask, to subscribe...grandparents. Carolina Oliphant was the daughter and...1715 and 1745; his son Laurence (father of Nairne...
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Emma Lazarus, Jewish American Poetics, and the Challenge of Modernity
Journal article by Ranen Omer-Sherman; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 19, 2003
Subjects: Lazarus, Emma--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women poets--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...advocates of Jewish nationalism, such as Lawrence Oliphant. At the same time, she became a startlingly productive...Hanover: Brandeis UP-UP of New England, 1993. Oliphant, Laurence. The Land of Gilead: With Excursions in the Lebanon...
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Emma Lazarus, Jewish American Poetics, and the Challenge of Modernity
Journal article by Ranen Omer-Sherman; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 19, 2002
Subjects: Jews, American--Social aspects, Lazarus, Emma--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...advocates of Jewish nationalism, such as Lawrence Oliphant. At the same time, she became a startlingly productive...Hanover: Brandeis UP-UP of New England, 1993. Oliphant, Laurence. The Land of Gilead: With Excursions in the Lebanon...
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An Emigrant and a Gentleman: Imperial Masculinity, British Magazines, and the Colony That Got Away
Journal article by Anne M. Windholz; Victorian Studies, Vol. 42, 2000
Subjects: English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Civilization, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901
...Elite . London: Heinemann, 1963 . Norris, W. E. "Mrs. Van Steen". Cornhill 42 ( Dec. 1880 ): 680-708. Oliphant, Laurence. "Western Wanderings: The Newest American Railroad". Blackwoods 131 ( Mar. 1882 ): 273-92.
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The Success of American Communes
Journal article by Clifford F. Thies; Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 67, 2000
Subjects: Collective settlements--Research, Communal living--Economic aspects
...Pink Ears, queen of the rabbit fairies. When Lady Oliphant died, her son Laurence, a former member of Parliament, who had joined...bigamy, adultery, and statutory rape. Laurence Oliphant thereupon declared himself the Center of the universe...
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magazine articles on: Oliphant Laurence  - 6 results

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The Difference Engine
Magazine article by Gene Santoro; The Nation, Vol. 252, May 6, 1991
Subjects: Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...spine of the novels complex tale. Laurence Oliphant, head of Britains secret police...policeman and his bosses need. For Oliphant has a plan for how to use statistics...aided only by three others. Oliphant himself straddles the poetic and...
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Antique Roadshow
Magazine article by Richard Gott; New Statesman, Vol. 131, March 11, 2002
Subjects: Imperial Vanities: The Adventures of the Baker Brothers and Gordon of Kharoum (Book)--Reviews, Imperialism--History
...1848, to which the Baker brothers and their friend Laurence Oliphant must have been witnesses, gets a paragraph but nothing...provides us with few details. At least one of them, Oliphant, was borderline insane, ending up as a Christian...
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Our Genius Problem: Why This Obsession with the Word, with the Idea, and with the People on Whom We've Bestowed the Designation?
Magazine article by Marjorie Garber; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002
Subjects: Genius--Analysis, Genius--Social aspects, Intellect--Analysis, Intelligence levels, Intelligence--Analysis
...Jonathan Swift); and those who exhibited "marked eccentricity not amounting to insanity" (James Boswell, Laurence Oliphant). Ellis paused over the case of William Blake, noting a contemporary doctors view that if the story of Blakes...
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Our Genius Problem: Why This Obsession with the Word, with the Idea, and with the People on Whom We've Bestowed the Designation?
Magazine article by Marjorie Garber; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 290, December 2002
Subjects: Genius
...Southey, Jonathan Swift); and those who exhibited "marked eccentricity not amounting to insanity" (James Boswell Laurence Oliphant). Ellis paused over the case of William Blake, noting a contemporary doctors view that if the story of Blakes...
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Edmund Spenser: The Boyhood of a Poet
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, February 1994
Subjects: Poets--Biography, Spenser, Edmund--Biography
...Thornbury, op cit. 108; Stow I 131; James Oliphant. Educational Writings of Richard Mulcaster...vol. 230, No. 4, pp465-7. 12. Oliphant, op cit., xiv, 114-5, xvii-xviii...Grosart I 14; Judson, op cit. 15; Oliphant, op cit. 25. |Donald Bruce, a former...
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Every Super Lambanana
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), July 18, 2008
...stands outside St Georges Hall. Superlambanana tree Amanda Oliphant looked at the lack of trees within urban areas, so she put...based at the Bluecoat. Fire Cracker To Martian Skies Artist Laurence Payot was one of the first to create a Superlambanana design...


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encyclopedia articles on: Oliphant Laurence  - 3 results

 
 
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Oliphant, Laurence
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OLIPHANT, LAURENCE ol if nt, 1829 88, British author...dictated by a spirit. After Alices death Oliphant married (1888) Rosamond Dale Owen...biography by his cousin, Margaret Oliphant (1891); study by V. and R. A. Colby...
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Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant (Wilson)
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OLIPHANT, MARGARET OLIPHANT (WILSON) 1828 97, Scottish author. She was widowed at the...1895); and biographies of Sheridan (1883) and her cousin Laurence Oliphant (1891), among others. See her Days of My Life (1857), and...
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Harris, Thomas Lake
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...where it was known as Salem-on-Erie. In that year Laurence Oliphant joined this communal religious settlement. Harris...community moved to Santa Rosa, Calif., in 1875; Oliphant remained behind and in 1881 broke completely with...


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