The Story Of An African Farm - Softcover

Schreiner, Olive; Iron, Ralph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438284357 ISBN 13: 9781438284354

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

Synopsis

The Story of an African Farm (first published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron) was South African author Olive Schreiner's first novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognized as one of the first feminist novels.

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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) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner, and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed ever since its first publication in 1883 for the bold manner in which it dealt with some of the issues of the day.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1438284357
• ISBN 13: 9781438284354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 166