OLIVE. A Novel.
BYTHE AUTHOR OF “THE OGILVIES.”
IN THREE VOLUMES.VOL. I.
LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL
193, PICCADILLY
(LATE 186, STRAND).
1850.WHITING, BEAUFORD HOUSE, STRAND.
THE BEST MOTHER, WIFE, AND FRIEND,—
THE TRUEST WOMAN I KNOW,—
I
DEDICATE THIS STORY OF A WOMAN'S LIFE.
THE AUTHOR.
By the same Author, in 3 vols. post 8vo. cloth
THE OGILVIES.
A Novel.
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“This book is charming. It is written with deep earnestness, and
pervaded by a noble and loving philosophy; while in giving form to
her conceptions, the writer evinces at once a fine and subtle
imagination, and that perception of minute characteristics which
gives to fiction the life-like truth of biography. Nor does she want
the power to relieve her more serious view by one of genial and
well-directed humour.”
—Athenæum.
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“It is a pleasure to speak, as we are bound to speak, of the book
before us—viz., in terms of high and cordial praise.”
—Weekly News.
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“A tale of intense passion, powerfully written, evidently by one
whose acquaintance with the mysteries of the human heart, with its
infirmities and its inconsistencies, is long and deep.”
—John Bull.
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“A clever novel... No class of reader will be disappointed.”
—Literary Gazette.
