Five hundred people were detained under this law in its first six months. On release they could be re-arrested (as First was as she stood in a phone booth outside the prison, about to tell...
Literary responses
Olive Schreiner
Biographers Ruth First
and Ann Scott
call the book both Undine's and Olive's story,
First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch, 1980.
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and Cherry Clayton
agrees with them that it is Schreiner's first transition from the diary to the novel form. To...
Literary responses
Olive Schreiner
Clayton
considers that this unwieldy novel is a result of the multifaceted nature of Schreiner's life experiences, and the various perspectives she had of them over time. She also notes that it reflects historical changes...
Textual Features
Olive Schreiner
The novel deals with a group of people living on an isolated Boer farm in South Africa: the landscape of the Karoo is a very important feature. According to Ruth First
and Ann Scott
...
Textual Production
Olive Schreiner
Schreiner claims that she began writing the book in the1880s, and that in 1900 most of the manuscript was destroyed while she was absent from Johannesburg and her home was looted during the Boer war...
Timeline
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Texts
First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch, 1980.
