Olive Schreiner
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable life of Olive Schreiner, the pioneering South African novelist, feminist, and political activist whose 1883 masterwork The Story of an African Farm shook the Victorian literary world. Written with rigorous scholarly depth, Ruth First and Ann Scott present a sweeping portrait of a woman whose intellectual passions — from anti-imperialism and pacifism to the liberation of women — placed her decades ahead of her time. The authors uncover the complex tensions between Schreiner's visionary public voice and her turbulent private life, including her struggles with illness, her passionate correspondences, and her often contradictory relationships with the men and women who surrounded her. Drawing on extensive archival research, the biography situates Schreiner firmly within the political and social upheavals of colonial South Africa and late-Victorian Britain, illustrating how her radical ideas shaped and were shaped by those convulsive historical forces. The result is a searching, intellectually serious work that restores one of history's most compelling and underappreciated figures to her rightful place in the canon of feminist and postcolonial thought.
Author: Ruth First And Ann Scott
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Andre Deutsch
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
This authoritative biography chronicles the remarkable life of Olive Schreiner, the pioneering South African novelist, feminist, and political activist whose 1883 masterwork The Story of an African Farm shook the Victorian literary world. Written with rigorous scholarly depth, Ruth First and Ann Scott present a sweeping portrait of a woman whose intellectual passions — from anti-imperialism and pacifism to the liberation of women — placed her decades ahead of her time. The authors uncover the complex tensions between Schreiner's visionary public voice and her turbulent private life, including her struggles with illness, her passionate correspondences, and her often contradictory relationships with the men and women who surrounded her. Drawing on extensive archival research, the biography situates Schreiner firmly within the political and social upheavals of colonial South Africa and late-Victorian Britain, illustrating how her radical ideas shaped and were shaped by those convulsive historical forces. The result is a searching, intellectually serious work that restores one of history's most compelling and underappreciated figures to her rightful place in the canon of feminist and postcolonial thought.