South African author and feminist Olive Schreiner is born

Date: 24 Mar 1855
Updated: 19 Mar 2020

South African author Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner is born to Gottlob and Rebecca (Rebekah) Schreiner. During her youth she lived in Cradock in the Eastern Cape. She died in Wynberg, Cape Town, on 10 December 1920. The Department of Tourism in the Eastern Cape has converted a house into a museum and named it after her. Some of her works include: The Story of an African Farm, upon which her fame mainly rests. The first edition was published under the pseudonym Ralph Iron. A Track to the Water's Edge. Dream Life and Real Life. The Letters of Olive Schreiner. From Man to Man. So Then There Are Dreams. Thoughts on South Africa. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. Undine. New York: 1972. Date is 1929 Woman and Labor.

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01SA Places,(2014), "The Schreiner House", From: SA Places,[Online] Available at:www.places.co.za,[Accessed 11 March 2014].
02Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU.

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