Story of an African, The - Softcover

Schreiner, Olive

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553214128 ISBN 13: 9780553214123

Publisher: Bantam Classics, 1993

Synopsis

The classic tale of a beautiful young woman confronting the oppression of her sex by taking a lover displays the author's radical views on religion, marriage, the search for self, and the struggle for women. Original.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The Story of an African Farm (1883) marks an early appearance in fiction of Victorian society’s emerging New Woman. The novel follows the spiritual quests of Lyndall and Waldo, who each struggle against social constraints in their search for happiness and truth: Lyndall, against society’s expectations of women, and Waldo against stifling class conventions. Written from the margins of the British empire, the novel addresses the conflicts of race, class, and gender that shaped the lives of European settlers in Southern Africa before the Boer Wars.

This Broadview edition includes appendices that link the novel to histories of empire and colonialism, the emergence of the New Woman, and the conflicts between science and religion in the Victorian period. Contemporary reviews are also included.

About the Author:

Olive Schreiner 1855--1920, South African author and feminist, b. Wittebergen Reserve, Cape Colony. After several years as a governess, she went to England in 1881, taking with her the manuscript of her famous novel, The Story of an African Farm (1883). Her later works included Dreams (1921), a collection of allegories; Women and Labour (1911); and a significant novel, unfinished, From Man to Man (1926).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Classics
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0553214128
• ISBN 13: 9780553214123
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 334