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Network Rail Property has submitted plans to redevelop #London Liverpool Street Station, aiming to accommodate over 200 million passengers annually by 2041. This transformation will boost London’s economy and establish a landmark gateway to the City. The station, currently serving 118 million passengers, will expand to include step-free access, new lifts, escalators, toilets, and family-friendly spaces. The redevelopment will also feature new retail, leisure, and workspace options, enhancing public spaces and supporting the #City of London’s long-term growth. The project is expected to create 250,000 jobs by 2035 and generate £32 billion in tax revenue. The redesign respects the station’s #Victorian #heritage while improving accessibility, with input from local communities and heritage groups. The transformation will be funded through private partnerships, including new office space above the station.
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Network Rail Media CentreIt's time to transform London Liverpool StreetNetwork Rail Property submits application to redevelop Britain’s busiest station making it fit for the future. 
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“THE OPEN DOOR… explores the borders between the natural physical world and the spiritual one. Like many of Oliphant’s ghost stories, it is about a past which refuses to be silent and a modernity which refuses to listen to it.”

—Prof Rosemary Mitchell on Margaret Oliphant’s THE OPEN DOOR

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Leeds Trinity UniversityMargaret Oliphant’s ‘The Open Door’: Looking Back to Move Forward
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Virginia Woolf wrote that Margaret Oliphant had “sold her brain” & “prostituted her culture”…

—on BBC Sounds: Clare Walker Gore discusses Oliphant’s career, laments Woolf’s dismissal of her work, & shows why Oliphant deserves to be read today

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bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0853wzj

BBCBBC Radio 4 - Arts & Ideas, Margaret Oliphant - women writers to put back on the bookshelfThe Scottish writer whose comic heroine Miss Marjoribanks bucks 19th-century conventions
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“Oliphant… creates a series of insightful, witty & compelling narratives & characters that are deeply uncomfortable with the romantic conventions of the 19th-century novel”

—Laura Witz on Oliphant’s subversion of Victorian romance & gender conventions

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dangerouswomenproject.org/2016

Dangerous Women Project · Margaret Oliphant and the Romantic Novel - Dangerous Women ProjectOne of Scotland's lesser known but most prolific writers, Margaret Oliphant, subtly subverted 19th century society's expectations in her romance novels.

Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897) was born #OTD, 4 April – a 🎂 🧵

“MISS MARJORIBANKS (1866) is surely the most interesting and entertaining example of a woman writing about men in the 19th century”

—Tom Crewe in the London Review of Books on Margaret Oliphant’s 1866 novel MISS MARJORIBANKS

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lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n14/to

London Review of Books · Tom Crewe · On the Shelf: Mrs OliphantMargaret Oliphant, like Jane Austen, was a realist. Marriage was no guarantee of happiness. She could manage without a...

If this don’t fetch the kids, why, they have gone rotten since my day.
—Robert Louis Stevenson, writing to W.E. Henley about TREASURE ISLAND (24 Aug 1881)

Matthew Bevis on TREASURE ISLAND & some of its spinoffs, in the London Review of Books, 25 Oct 2012

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lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v34/n20/ma

London Review of Books · Matthew Bevis · Kids Gone Rotten: ‘Treasure Island’

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