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Olive: A Novel

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First published: 1850
Pages: 403

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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
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Chapter 28
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Chapter 29
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Chapter 30
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Chapter 31
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Chapter 32
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Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
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Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
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Chapter 41
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Chapter 42
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Chapter 43
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Chapter 44
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Chapter 45
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Chapter 46
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Chapter 47
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 49
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About this book

A nurse notices a slight curve at the top of the newborn's spine, and Olive Rothesay's life is decided in that moment. Her mother Sybilla, vain and frightened, keeps the fact from Captain Angus Rothesay while he is away in Jamaica. Craik spends the rest of the novel on what that early rejection does and does not settle. Olive grows up assuming marriage is closed to her, teaches herself to paint, and becomes a working artist with an income of her own, an unusual fate to grant a Victorian heroine. She also pulls the Scottish minister Harold Gwynne back from a crisis of religious doubt, and marries him. Underneath runs Christal Manners, who proves to be Olive's half-sister by a West Indian woman of mixed descent, tying the family's respectability to colonial slavery.

About the author

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik became a prominent Victorian novelist through fiction attentive to family duty, women’s work, disability, and moral independence. Olive: A Novel appeared in 1850 within her long, varied prose career and follows a young artist whose physical difference shapes how relatives and society regard her.