Cecil John Rhodes

Inspired by her early, uncritical admiration for Khama III, Chief of Bechuanaland , the book moved to the intention of depicting him warts and all (using a title given him by his people, Mother Winter...

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...

This letter appealed to Jameson for help from a representative of the British residents of the Transvaal: Thousands of unarmed men, women and children of our race, will be at the mercy of well-armed Boers...

Four years after taking her PhD, AB compiled An Iconography of Cecil Rhodes; Rhodes House at Oxford has a copy from the typescript.

Nonetheless, several of her plays have never (in 2008) been staged. One is Wild Diamonds, set in South Africa and seen through the eyes of Olive Schreiner and Cecil Rhodes, which was commissioned...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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