Cecil John Rhodes

Schreiner dedicated the work to Sir George Grey , an English administrator whom she admired for his commitment to Dutch, English, and native Africans alike: the antithesis of Cecil Rhodes . She...

Evelyn May Clowes was engaged to a man who was killed exploring in Africa (on an expedition funded by Cecil Rhodes ). This bereavement was a matter of great grief to her. The family expectation...

While in Egypt FS had the good fortune of meeting C. F. Moberly Bell , who became influential in advancing her career in journalism. In 1899 she first met the wealthy empire-builder Cecil Rhodes

DW was about eleven when the great influence of the African imperialist George Goldie (whose biography she was later to write) came into her life. When he answered yes to the question whether he had...

Despite RD's admiration for Cecil Rhodes , Alfred Milner , and Leander Starr Jameson , he also liked and respected the explorer Mary Kingsley , whose political views were nothing like this own. In...

FS devotes a great deal of space to mining operations and to relations between the Dutch and the English settlers. After briefly describing the underground part of the De Beers Company diamond mines in Kimberley...

Both publishers' readers and, later, reviewers disapproved of the fictional use of Christ. They also had trouble with the book's highflown style. The book's first, generous print-run sold out rapidly; it became a popular sensation...

OS sympathised with the Boers, but initially respected Cecil Rhodes , who hoped to unite South Africa under the British flag. Later she realised the brutal suppression of the native people which would result from...

With her husband, OS became involved in South African politics. Essentially, they were socialists, who opposed the racist, imperialist, and capitalist policies of the South African leaders. After initially becoming a friend of prime minister...

Always an admirer of the administrators, the soldiers, and their women who made the empire function, Kipling became increasingly imperialistic and nationalistic in the second part of his life. In South Africa, he admired...

In the Fortnightly ReviewFS published, under her name, The British South Africa Company, an article in praise of Cecil Rhodes , the founder of the Company.

Compared with its predecessor, said Johns , this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. It opens on a female observer of empire, the witty and accomplishedEmily Eden

Many South Africans, including members of Schreiner's own family, supported Rhodes 's proposal for a country united under the British flag. OS , however, had become disillusioned with Rhodes, and her essays expose his ruthless...

The book was written for a British audience, because Schreiner felt that British public opinion might prevent Cecil Rhodes from carrying out his plans to foment war to obtain control over the Transvaal.

The architects of the Jameson Raid (financed by Cecil Rhodes , led by Leander Starr Jameson ) used this intentionally undated letter to justify to the British public (after the fact) the armed incursion into...