Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (born 1855)

Olive Schreiner

South African author and activist (1855–1920)

Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential…