Olive Schreiner
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (March 24, 1855 – December 11, 1920) was a South African writer and feminist.
During the Boers war, the English looted Scheiner's house and her "desk was forced open and broken up, its contents set on fire in the centre of the room, so that the roof was blackened over the pile of burnt papers. (...) I thus knew my book had been destroyed."[1] The existing version of Woman and Labour, written while Schreiner was interned in a concetration camp, is "a remembrance mainly drawn from one chapter of the larger book"[2].
Names
- Ralph Iron (pseudonym)
Bibliography
- The Story of an African Farm (1883 novel; pubd under pseudonym Ralph Iron; recognized as one of the first feminist novels)
- Dream Life and Real Life (1893)
- Dreams (1891 collection)
- "In a Far-Off World" (1891) (reprinted in The Lifted Veil)
- Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897 novel)
- So Then There Are Dreams (1901)
- Woman and Labour (1911)
- Thoughts on South Africa (1923)
- From Man to Man (1927)
- Undine (1972)
- A Track to the Water's Edge (1973)