Alfred Ollivant
Author
(1874 - 1927)
Alfred Ollivant (1874–1927) was an English novelist best known for his children’s classic Bob, Son of Battle. Ollivant also wrote about a dozen other novels ranging from small-scale cautionary tales to grand historical epics.
Bibliography
Bob Son of Battle (1898)
Two sheep farmers and their sheepdogs engage in a years-long battle to prove their superiority in handling sheep with the son of one caught between.
- Published in the U.K. under the title Owd Bob: The Grey Dog of Kenmuir.