Olive Schreiner

Born in 1855 to English missionaries working in Africa, hers was a lonely, self-educated childhood. She worked as a governess during the late 1870s, and when she sailed to England for medical training in 1881, had with her the manuscripts of three novels, including The Story of an African Farm, her best known. She was quickly taken up by London's intellectual circles; Havelock Ellis and Eleanor Marx were among her closest friends.

About the author

First, Ruth

Product details

• Authors: Ruth First, Ann Scott
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1990
• EAN: 9780813516226
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-1622-6
• No. of pages: 392
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 202 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries