"A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter)”

Title"A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter)”
Year for Search1882
Authors[Oliphant], [Margaret](1828-97)
Secondary TitleMacmillan’s Magazine
Volume / Edition46.271
Pagination1-19
Date PublishedMay 1882
KeywordsFemale author, Scottish author
Annotation

Experiences after death in the first level of heaven where those arriving are introduced to their beautiful surroundings.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. with “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” In The Little Pilgrim. Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1882.

Info Notes

Followed by “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” Macmillan’s Magazine 46.275 (September 1882): 337-55, in which the “Little Pilgrim” visits a higher heaven, which has a city and villages and is introduced to the art, music, and education of heaven; “The Little Pilgrim in the Seen and Unseen.” The Scottish Church 1 (July 1885): 93-109, in which the “Little Pilgrim” revisits Earth to learn God’s plan; “The Land of Darkness.” Blackwood’s Magazine 141.855 (January 1887): 1-36, in which the “Little Pilgrim” does not appear and is set in either Purgatory or Hell; rpt. in Margaret Oliphant, Selected Short Stories of the Supernatural. Ed. Margaret K. Gray (Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1985), 162-209; and The Selected Work of Margaret Oliphant. Volume 12 Supernatural Tales. Ed. Merryn Williams (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), 199-239; and “On the Dark Mountains.” Blackwood’s Magazine 144.877 (November 1888): 646-63, in which the “Little Pilgrim” helps others to advance. Most of the people described were people the author knew. The five stories are reprinted in different order in The Land of Darkness, Along With Some Further Chapters in the Experiences of the Little Pilgrim. London: Macmillan, 1888; and in The Little Pilgrim. Further Experiences. Boston, MA Roberts Brothers, 1889.

Author Note

Scottish female author (1828-97)

Full Text

1882 [Oliphant, Margaret] (1828-97). “A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter).” Macmillan’s Magazine 46.271 (May 1882): 1-19. Rpt. with “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” In The Little Pilgrim. Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1882.

Experiences after death in the first level of heaven where those arriving are introduced to their beautiful surroundings. Followed by “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” Macmillan’s Magazine 46.275 (September 1882): 337-55, in which the “Little Pilgrim” visits a higher heaven, which has a city and villages and is introduced to the art, music, and education of heaven; “The Little Pilgrim in the Seen and Unseen.” The Scottish Church 1 (July 1885): 93-109, in which the “Little Pilgrim” revisits Earth to learn God’s plan; “The Land of Darkness.” Blackwood’s Magazine 141.855 (January 1887): 1-36, in which the “Little Pilgrim” does not appear and is set in either Purgatory or Hell; rpt. in Margaret Oliphant, Selected Short Stories of the Supernatural. Ed. Margaret K. Gray (Edinburgh, Scot.: Scottish Academic Press, 1985), 162-209; and The Selected Work of Margaret Oliphant. Volume 12 Supernatural Tales. Ed. Merryn Williams (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013), 199-239; and “On the Dark Mountains.” Blackwood’s Magazine 144.877 (November 1888): 646-63, in which the “Little Pilgrim” helps others to advance. Most of the people described were people the author knew. The five stories are reprinted in different order in The Land of Darkness, Along With Some Further Chapters in the Experiences of the Little Pilgrim. London: Macmillan, 1888; and in The Little Pilgrim. Further Experiences. Boston, MA Roberts Brothers, 1889. Scottish female author.