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Olive Schreiner | | Variant Name: |
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner, Ralph Iron | | Birth Date: |
March 24, 1855 | | Death Date: |
December 11, 1920 | | Place of Birth: |
Wittenbergen Mission Station, Basutoland, South Africa | | Place of Death: |
Wynberg, Cape Colony, South Africa | | Nationality: |
South African | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
writer |
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 Biography of Olive (Emilie Albertina) Schreiner
6,728 words, approx. 22 pages
 South African novelist, feminist, and political polemicist Olive Schreiner has exerted a profound and continuing influence on many generations of thinkers and writers in South Africa, Europe, and the United States. As the first English-speaking... summary from source:
Biography of Olive (Emilie Albertina) Schreiner
6,393 words, approx. 21 pages
Though better known for The Story of an African Farm (1883), a vivid description of provincial, stolid Boer (Afrikaner) society, Olive Schreiner also was the author of many shorter works of fiction. Both Dreams (1890) and Dream Life and Real Life: A... summary from source:
Biography of Olive (Emilie Albertina) Schreiner
3,964 words, approx. 13 pages
With the publication of The Story of an African Farm in 1883, Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner became the first major South African writer in the English language. Lyndall, the novel's female protagonist, was the most outspoken feminist to appear until...
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 Olive Schreiner Quotes
21 words, approx. 1 pages
 My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are...
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 Olive Schreiner Information
2,205 words, approx. 7 pages
Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 - December 11 1920), was a South African author, pacifist and political...
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Novel Olive Schreiner, Masochism, and Omnipotence: Strategies of a Preoedipal Politics
10/01/2002: 13,741 words, approx. 46 pages Late-Victorian culture was saturated with masochistic phenomena-self-destructive New Woman heroines; the "winter" Dionysianism of Beardsley, Swinburne, Pater, and other decadents; the imperial suffering glorified by Kipling, Haggard, and Doyle; the self-flagellations of Hopkins' Catholicism; even the self-martyring spectacle of the Oscar Wilde trials and...
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