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Olive Schreiner
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Biography Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
South African author
Was born on 24 mar 1855.
Died on 11 dec 1920, at 65 years old.
Died on 11 dec 1920, at 65 years old.
Origin country South Africa
Quotes by Olive SchreinerPacifist and political activist, she is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it debates the issues of its day, the treatment of women.
Works:
Dreams, 1890
Dream Life and Real Life, 1893
The Political Situation in Cape Colony, 1895 (with S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner)
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, 1897
An English South African Woman's View of the Situation, 1899
A Letter on the Jew, 1906
Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government, 1909
Woman and Labour, 1911
Thoughts on South Africa, 1923
Stories, Dreams and Allegories, 1923
From Man to Man, 1926
Undine, 1929
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