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Olive : a novel / by the author of ''John Halifax, gentleman.'' [i.e. Mrs. Craik].
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Foreign Imprints 1866 Craik
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 1826-1887.
- Series:
- Collection of British authors ; v. 820-821.
- Collection of British authors ; v. 820-821
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women with disabilities--Fiction.
- Young women with disabilities.
- Young women--Fiction.
- Young women.
- Families--England--Fiction.
- Families.
- England--Fiction.
- England.
- Genre:
- Religious fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. in 1 ; 16 cm.
- Edition:
- Copyright ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1866.
- Summary:
- Crippled Olive Rothesay must not only win her parents' affection but also overcome their initial disgust at her physical "imperfection," a curvature of the spine. Published three years after Jane Eyre, Olive's swift fictional response to Bronte's novel raises questions of family, race, and nation through the story of Olive's struggle to take her place in the world as artist and woman.
- OCLC:
- 499927006
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