The contrast between the poor, work-worn protesters and the richly decorated, fashionable church deeply affected her conscience. The next day she presented herself at the Bristol Socialist Society
's headquarters, where Robert Weare
advised her...
Author summary
Olive Schreiner
OS
was a political and social activist as well as a writer. Her biographer Liz Stanley says she was internationally probably the best-known feminist writer and theorist from the 1880s through to the 1930s.
Stanley, Liz. “Encountering the Imperial and Colonial Past through Olive Schreiners Trooper Peter Halket of MashonalandWomens Writing, Vol.
7
, No. 2, 2000, pp. 197-19.
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Publishing
Rose Allatini
It is titled from a phrase in the book of Isaiah which is read by Christians as a prophecy of the persecutions awaiting the Messiah, or Jesus
Christ. Its dedication, To You Who Made Me...
Reception
Rose Allatini
At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed...
Reception
Isabella Ormston Ford
When it was published as a volume, a reviewer for the Saturday Review called it a clever and careful piece of work by an author new to fiction,
“19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers.