First published in 1850, Olive traces its eponymous heroine's progress from ill-starred birth to maturity as a painter and wife. 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.
First published in 1850, "Olive" traces its eponymous heroine's progress from her ill-starred birth to maturity as she struggles to take her place in the world as artist and woman. This edition also includes 'The Half-Caste', a story that confronts racial prejudice in Victorian Britain.
