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Olive Schreiner
AuthorBooks · Second hand1855-1920
Olive Schreiner 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. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.
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About Olive Schreiner
Birth
1855
Death
1920
First book
1883
Years writing
143
Olive Schreiner 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. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.
Olive Schreiner was a pioneering South African writer and sociologist who challenged the norms of her time.
She published her most famous work, The Story of an African Farm, under the male pseudonym Ralph Iron.
Her prolific career spanned 138 works exploring fundamental themes such as feminism and social justice.
Born in the Cape Colony in 1855, her literature deeply reflects the reality and landscape of South Africa.
Beyond her literary work, she was an activist committed to the social and moral issues of her era.
