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Olive Schreiner

 

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Olive Schreiner : The Story of an African Farm

"Mary Brown ... wrote in her Memories that "'I asked a Lancashire working woman what she thought of Story of an African Farm and a strange expression came over her face as she said 'I read parts of it over and over.' 'What parts?' I asked, and her reply was 'About yon poor lass (Lyndall) ... I think there is a hundred of women what feels like that but can't speak it, but she could speak what we feel'."

Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: anon      Print: Book

  

Olive Schreiner : 

[L.M. Montgomery] 'read a great deal; she mentions fifty different authors in her journal which covers the years 1910 to 1921. Titles range from Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" to Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" and Thackeray's "Vanity Fair". She also read many female writers, such as George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Edith Wharton and Olive Schreiner'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Lucy Maud Montgomery      Print: Book

  

Olive Schreiner : Woman and Labour

'To Olive Schreiner's "Woman and Labour" - that "Bible of the Woman's Movement" which sounded to the world of 1911 as insistent and inspiring as a trumpet-call summoning the faithful to a vital crusade - was due my final acceptance of feminism.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

  

Olive Schreiner : The Story of an African Farm

'During the next few weeks I spent a good many troubled, speculative, exciting hours with the little volume clasped in my hands.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Book

  

Olive Schreiner : unknown

'During my schooldays, which coincided with the dramatic climax of the suffrage movement, I had read Olive Schreiner and followed the militant campaigns with the excitement of a sympathetic spectator, but my growing consciousness that women suffered from remediable injustices was due less to the movement for the vote than to my early environment with its complacent acceptance of female subordination.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain      Print: Unknown

 

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