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Olive
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deformed' from birth, Olive believes that she will never be able to marry like other women, so she devotes her life to her art, her mother, and above all, her religion. It takes a dark secret from the past and a new, fascinating acquaintance, to make her realize what her life could be.
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deformed' from birth, Olive believes that she will never be able to marry like other women, so she devotes her life to her art, her mother, and above all, her religion. It takes a dark secret from the past and a new, fascinating acquaintance, to make her realize what her life could be.
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Here Lyle, blushing crimson, stopped his brother's mouth with his little hand; whereat Bob flew into such a passion, that he quite forgot Olive, and all he was about to say, in the excitement of a pugilistic combat with his unlucky cadet In the midst of which the two belligerents—poor, untaught, motherless lads—were hurried off to bed.
Their companionship lost, Olive was left very much to her own devices for amusement. Some few young people that she knew came and talked to her for a little while, but they all went back to their singing, dancing, or flirting; and Olive, who seemed to have no gift nor share in either, was left alone. She did not feel this much at first, being occupied in her . . . Read More
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I thoroughly loved it. It's a very character driven book that benefits from being set over a longer period of time, displaying character change as well as change of opinion about characters in a fascinating way. I couldn't read about these people without them evoking some feeling in me and I was thi
Did you read Jane Eyre and think that what it really needed was long, tedious, swathes of Christian piety riddled with fallacies and bracketed by highly regressive gender roles? Then Olive may be the book you did not even know you needed in your life. Everyone else, though, is likely to be bored and
4.5 stars
Olive is born with a deformity in her spine. Her parents are devastated to have a humpback child, but try to show Olive compassion. Her childhood is peaceful, but as Olive grows up she begins to realize that she will never be able to live like other people. She is unlikely to ever marry o
I thoroughly enjoyed this - a wonderful, fascinating, enjoyable, tender novel, dealing with some really important themes and some that can be a little underrepresented in Victorian literature. I can't wait to read more by Dinah Mulock Craik, and would highly recommend this one.