Olive Schreiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1047770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olive Schreiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olive |
| FAMILY NAME | Schreiner |
| SIGNATURE | SCHREINER O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1911 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From Man to Man or Perhaps Only
Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man or Perhaps Only —, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist, society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One sister remains in the British Cape Colony and finds a way to deal with her husband’s infidelities. The other raped at age 15, is hounded out of her insular white South African community, and becomes a kept woman in L…
Woman and Labour
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), South African author and feminist, and friend of Havelock Ellis and Eleanor Marx, was one of the most important and challenging social commentators of her time. The ninth of twelve children, she lacked formal education and was taught by her mother. It was her 1883 novel Story of an African Farm that secured her reputation as an author and feminist, which her activities in England (1881–9) further consolidated. First p…
The story of an African farm
Chapter XI An Unfinished Letter
Gregory Rose had been gone seven months. Em sat alone on a white sheepskin before the fire. The August night-wind, weird and shrill, howled round the chimneys and through the crannies, and in walls and doors, and uttered a long low cry as it forced...
Chapter II Plans and Bushman-paintings
At last came the year of the great drought, the year of 1862. From end to end of the land the earth cried for water. Man and beast turned their eyes to the pitiless sky, that like the roof of some brazen oven arched...
Chapter 1 Shadows from Child-life
The Watch The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted ‘karroo’* bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain, the...
Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and The Rights of Woman
Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and The Rights of Woman Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, SPRING 1994, Pages 189–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/37.1.189 Published: 01 March 1994
An Olive Schreiner Reader
Women and Labour
Women and Labour
Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and The Rights of Woman
Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and The Rights of Woman Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, SPRING 1994, Pages 189–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/37.1.189 Published: 01 March 1994
Women and Labour
An Olive Schreiner Reader
Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and The Rights of Woman
Introduction to the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft and The Rights of Woman Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 37, Issue 1, SPRING 1994, Pages 189–193, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/37.1.189 Published: 01 March 1994
The story of an African farm
Chapter XI An Unfinished Letter
Gregory Rose had been gone seven months. Em sat alone on a white sheepskin before the fire. The August night-wind, weird and shrill, howled round the chimneys and through the crannies, and in walls and doors, and uttered a long low cry as it forced...
Chapter II Plans and Bushman-paintings
At last came the year of the great drought, the year of 1862. From end to end of the land the earth cried for water. Man and beast turned their eyes to the pitiless sky, that like the roof of some brazen oven arched...
Chapter 1 Shadows from Child-life
The Watch The full African moon poured down its light from the blue sky into the wide, lonely plain. The dry, sandy earth, with its coating of stunted ‘karroo’* bushes a few inches high, the low hills that skirted the plain, the...
Woman and Labour
Olive Schreiner (1855–1920), South African author and feminist, and friend of Havelock Ellis and Eleanor Marx, was one of the most important and challenging social commentators of her time. The ninth of twelve children, she lacked formal education and was taught by her mother. It was her 1883 novel Story of an African Farm that secured her reputation as an author and feminist, which her activities in England (1881–9) further consolidated. First p…
From Man to Man or Perhaps Only
Olive Schreiner’s From Man to Man or Perhaps Only —, unfinished at the time of her death and posthumously published in 1926, tells the story of two white women born into the racist, society of mid-nineteenth-century South Africa. One sister remains in the British Cape Colony and finds a way to deal with her husband’s infidelities. The other raped at age 15, is hounded out of her insular white South African community, and becomes a kept woman in L…
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