Olive Schreiner

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.