Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, novelist, playwright, and historian. Alternative signature: “E. Blair Oliphant,” “E. Blair Graham,” “E. Maxtone Graham.” Married James Maxtone Graham on 3 September 1893. Author of “A Chef d’Œuvre.” (1893), Spindrift (1906), True Romances of Scotland (1906), Children of France (1914), and the children’s play The Sword of Peace (1918). Author of several books about her family history including The Oliphants of Gask. Records of a Jacobite Family (1910) and The Maxtones of Cultoquhey (1935).Chambers’s Journal ledger entries refer to her as Mrs Maxtone Graham, and list her address as of 15 India St, Edinburgh (poem published 9 February 1895; NLS Dep 341/371). Biographical information: BL; The Peerage <https://www.thepeerage.com/p12506.htm (8 October 2021). (AC, CC)