Alfred Ollivant was a British novelist best known today for Bob, Son of Battle (1898), his celebrated novel of a sheepdog. One Woman is described as the second part of a romance of Sussex and belongs to the tradition of regional English fiction drawing on the landscape and character of the South Downs. Ollivant’s writing is notable for its feeling for place and its quiet emotional intensity.
Now freely available in the public domain, this novel offers a glimpse of a writer who was more widely appreciated in his own time than in ours. Download this free EPUB from Better Gutenberg for the complete text.