Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927) was an English novelist, known for his novel Owd Bob. Ollivant also published about a dozen other novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical stories.
Biography Alfred Ollivant was born in Nuthurst, West Sussex, in 1874 and became a writer after a horse-riding injury ended his brief military career.
Owd Bob, his first novel, was published in 1898. Set in rural Cumbria, in northern England, the novel concerns a suspected sheep-killing collie, Bob. Even though most of the book's dialogue is written in the Cumbrian dialect, it became popular in the United States. Ollivant published a sequel, Danny, in 1902.
He was also a short-story contributor to the magazines The Atlantic Monthly and the Boston Evening Transcript.
Death Alfred Ollivant died in London on 19 January 1927.
Bibliography Owd Bob – Being the Story of Bob, Son of Battle, The Last of the Grey Dogs of Kenmuir (1898) Danny (1902) The Redcoat Captain: A Story of That Country (1907) The Gentleman: A Romance of the Sea (1908) The Taming of John Blunt (1911) The Royal Road (1912) The Brown Mare, and Other Studies of England under the Cloud (1916) Boy Woodburn: A Story of the Sussex Downs (1917) Two Men: A Romance of Sussex (1919) One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex (1921) Devil Dare (1923) Old For-ever: An Epic of Beyond the Indus (1923) Boxer & Beauty: A Tale of Two Cart-horses (1924) Tomorrow (1927) "The Next Step, An Essay on the Missing Policeman Dedicated to the Masses of Mankind, Silent and Suffering" (1919)
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