This powerful work, the only edition of Olive available, traces its eponymous heroine's progress from her ill-starred birth to maturity as a painter and wife, offering a fascinating study of deformity and race relations.
Crippled Olive Rothesay must not only win her parents'...
"Puir wee lassie, ye hae a waesome welcome to a waesome warld!" Such was the first greeting ever received by my heroine, Olive Rothesay. However, she would be then entitled neither a heroine nor even "Olive Rothesay," being a small nameless concretion of humanity, in colour and...
Olive: A Novel is a classic work of fiction written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and first published in 1875. The novel tells the story of Olive Chancellor, a young woman who is passionate about women's rights and education. Olive is determined to make a difference in the world...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original...
"Olive" from Dinah Craik. English novelist and poet (1826-1887).
Olive: A Novel is a classic work of literature written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and originally published in 1875. The book tells the story of Olive Rothesay, a young woman who is forced to confront the challenges of life as she grows up and faces the realities of the world...