Olive Blake's Good Work: A Novel

Published originally in 1862 and taking place in the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries, Olive Blake's Good Work makes claim to being a fictionalized account of real events, a habit which the author resorts to often enough to make the reader suspicious. But he is not alone in this habit. Many authors of that era made the same claim within their novels, often merely hinting at their stories being fictionalized versions of true events but other times explicitly saying so—and who a...