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Dedications | Olive Schreiner | 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
. First, Ruth, and Ann Scott. Olive Schreiner. André Deutsch, 1980. 231 Schreiner, Olive. Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland. T. Fisher Unwin, 1897. dedication Clayton, Cherry. Olive Schreiner. Twayne, 1997. 101 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Elinor Mordaunt | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Rudyard Kipling | 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. Harper, Lila Marz. Solitary Travelers. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001. 180 |
Friends, Associates | Dorothy Wellesley | 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... |
Friends, Associates | Flora Shaw | While in Egypt FS
had the good fortune of meeting C. F. Moberly Bell
, who became influential in advancing her career in journalism. Callaway, Helen, and Dorothy O. Helly. “Crusader for Empire: Flora Shaw / Lady Lugard”. Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance, edited by Nupur Chaudhuri and Margaret Strobel, Indiana University Press, 1992, pp. 79-97. 84 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Flora Shaw | 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... |
Literary responses | Olive Schreiner | 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... |
politics | Olive Schreiner | 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... |
politics | Olive Schreiner | 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... |
politics | Rudyard Kipling | Always an admirer of the administrators, the soldiers, and their women who made the empire function, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Flora Shaw | 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. Shaw, Flora. “The British South Africa Company”. Fortnightly Review, Vol. 52 , 1889, pp. 662-8. 662-8 |
Textual Features | Olive Schreiner | 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... |
Textual Features | Jan Morris | Compared with its predecessor, said Johns
, this volume reflects a growing awareness of the iniquities of the imperial system. Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 134 |
Textual Production | Olive Schreiner | 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. |
Textual Production | Anita Brookner | Four years after taking her PhD, AB
compiled An Iconography of Cecil Rhodes; Rhodes House at Oxford
has a copy from the typescript. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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