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Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed.
Around 5000 of Schreiner’s letters, written between 1871 and 1920, survive. They appear in The Olive Schreiner Letters Online just as she wrote them - including omissions, spelling mistakes, deletions and insertions.
Olive Schreiner was a writer who produced the first great South African novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). She had a powerful intellect, militantly feminist and liberal views on politics and society, and great vitality that was somewhat impaired by asthma and severe depressions.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Mar 14, 2012 · Olive Schreiner (in full Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner), a South African Anglophone novelist and radical feminist, was born on a missionary station in South Africa in 1855 as the ninth child of Gottlob Schreiner, a German Methodist missionary, and Rebecca Schreiner née Lyndall, the daughter of a London Congregational minister.
Dec 7, 2020 · Olive Schreiner: one of South Africa’s earliest major literary figures, she was a feminist, pacifist and anti-racist. Brian Maye. Mon Dec 7 2020 - 19:01.
The Project is grateful to the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin, for kindly allowing us to transcribe this Olive Schreiner letter, which is part of its Manuscript Collections.
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