Olive Schreiner

Ruth First and Ann Scott

Published by Schocken Books New York

About this Item

THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. A confidante of Eleanor Marx, admired by Oscar Wilde, G. B. Shaw, and Gladstone, Olive Schreiner burst on to the London scene as the author of the celebrated ' The Story of an African Farm. Here is the colourful story of the early feminist, passionate rebel, and major figure in the literary and political life of the Victorian era.Born is South Africa in 1855 of stern missionary parents, Olive Schreiner had proclaimed herself a freethinker by the age of ten. Far from any centre of culture, she educated herself by reading Herbert Spencer, Darwin, and Gibbon. At twenty six she had completed two novels, and she left for London, where her lively personality and brilliant mind gave her immediate entry into the literary and political circles of the 1880s.In all her writing she grappled with the problem of women's oppression, while her experiences reflected the strains of trying to live an emancipated life within the convery goods of Victorian society (from the inside flap blurb). Some foxing to sides of pages and inside the front and back covers. The book has a dust cover; however, it is a little worn in the corners.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Olive Schreiner
• Publisher: Schocken Books New York
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair