Olive ; : and, the half-caste
(2017)
Fiction
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Otbebookpublishing, 2017
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9783958649101 (electronic bk.) MWT11987711, 3958649106 (electronic bk.) 11987711
LANGUAGE
English
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First published in 1850, Olive traces its eponymous heroine's progress from her ill-starred birth to maturity as a painter and wife. The crippled child of parents who are disgusted by her physical 'imperfection', a curvature of the spine, Olive struggles to take her place in the world as artist and woman. Published three years after Jane Eyre, Olive's swift fictional response to Charlotte Bronte's novel raises questions of family, race and nation. This edition also includes 'The Half-Caste', a story that confronts questions of miscegenation and racial prejudice in Victorian Britain. (Excerpt from Goodreads)
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