We publish The Mystery of Mrs Blencarrow which contains two novellas by Mrs Oliphant (1828-97) who was stupendously prolific; Sarah Harkness calls her "the patron saint of the overworked single parent". Like all the Victorian writers on the Post this week, her work rate and output were extraordinary. She supported her family after her husband died leaving debts, but her life was blighted by domestic tragedy (she outlived all of her six children). She moved to Windsor in 1866 to be near to her two sons who were at Eton, and lived there for the rest of her life. Here she is in 1874 on the steps of her house in Clarence Crescent with her sons and nephew.