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    Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for...
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    Colesberg. Historic figures were at the centre of life here, people like Olive Schreiner, author and women's rights champion, and the tempestuous Rev. Thomas...
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  • Schreiner, Norwegian physical anthropologist Mike Schreiner (born 1969), Canadian politician Olive Schreiner, South African author Oliver Schreiner,...
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  • The Olive Schreiner Prize has been awarded annually since 1961 to emerging writers in the field of drama, prose, or poetry. It is named after Olive Schreiner...
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  • Oliver Deneys Schreiner MC KC (29 December 1890 – 27 July 1980), was a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa. One of the...
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    wife, the former Rebecca Lyndall, and a younger brother of the writer Olive Schreiner. He was educated at Templeton High School, Bedford, the South African...
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  • author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognised as one of the first feminist novels. Schreiner was...
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    some who migrated to the United Kingdom. The South African writer Olive Schreiner's famous novel The Story of an African Farm was published in 1883 and...
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    writer and scholar, John Addington Symonds; and the feminist writer, Olive Schreiner. E. M. Forster was a close friend and visited the couple regularly...
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  • African musician and vibe dealer "Main Place KwaThema". Census 2001. "Olive Schreiner Letters Online". www.oliveschreiner.org. Retrieved 6 September 2015...
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    dismissed as nonsensical. The Story of an African Farm, an 1883 novel by Olive Schreiner, refers to half of a "Mumboo-jumbow idol [that] leaves us utterly in...
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  • and based on the 1883 novel of the same name by South African author Olive Schreiner. The setting is a farm on the slopes of a Karoo Kopje, South Africa...
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    correspondence with the South African author Olive Schreiner, written between 1899 and 1917, is included in The Olive Schreiner Letters Online project, organised...
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    debut novel The Thunder That Roars. The book was awarded the 2015 Olive Schreiner Prize for prose and optioned for a feature film. A tale of a journalist...
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    classes over the past few years. Hirson, Baruch (1993). "Friend to Olive Schreiner: The Story of Ruth Schechter". Collected Seminar Papers – Institute...
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    Museum, contains a modern set of exhibitions portraying the life of Olive Schreiner. William Faulds, Victoria Cross recipient General Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger...
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    Dixie's depiction of feminist utopia, The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner, and Sarah Grand's work The Heavenly Twins. These raised awareness...
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    Pat Matshikiza Todd Matshikiza Stompie Mavi Lwazi Mvovo Don Pinnock Olive Schreiner Margaret Singana Minah Soga Jomo Sono Stratford Edward St Leger Marius...
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  • SAG-nominated actor Shortstraw, indie rock band from Johannesburg Olive Schreiner, South African writer, remembered for her novel The Story of an African...
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    Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation Award for the year 2000 and the Olive Schreiner Prize for 2005. He was voted 51st in the Top 100 Great South Africans...
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  • they go, Emily Davison hands Maud a copy of Dreams (1890), a book by Olive Schreiner that has been passed from one suffragette to another. On the day of...
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    poem by Aloysius Bertrand, 1842 Undine, an autobiographical book by Olive Schreiner, 1928 Ondine, a play by Jean Giraudoux, 1939 Undine geht, by Ingeborg...
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  • account of his experience, Bandiet (Afrikaans: "bandit"), won the Olive Schreiner Prize in 2003. Lewin was born in Lydenburg, then in the Transvaal....
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    O'Keeffe's art work. She was also reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Olive Schreiner, among others, alongside the radical magazine The Masses, and lecturing...
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  • Three Dreams in a Desert was first published in Olive Schreiner's Dreams. Dreams is compiled of eleven short stories which follow her experience of dreams...
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    Louise de la Ramee). 1901. A Plea for Olive Schreiner. The New York Times, 16 July. SAHO article: Olive Schreiner SAHO article: Elizabeth Maria Molteno...
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  • diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937) 1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (d. 1920) 1862 – Frank Weston Benson...
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  • Boshoff becomes the 2nd president of the Orange Free State 24 March - Olive Schreiner, author and feminist See Years in South Africa for list of References...
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  • Ander Land (Another Country), Na die Geliefde Land (Promised Land) Olive Schreiner (South Africa): The Story of an African Farm (1883) Benjamin Sehene...
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    South Africa, London (The Royal Court Theatre), and New York City. Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883) was a revelation in Victorian...
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