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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. 2549 Olive Schreiner, by Ruth First and Ann Scott (read 6 Nov 1993) The subject of this book was born 24 March 1855 to a German-born minister and his English wife at Wittebergen, Basutoland (now Lesotho), and died 11 Dec 1920 at Wynberg, South Africa. I read her best known book, The Story of an African Farm, because Vera Brittain talked so much about it in her diary. Schreiner is not a sympathetic figure in my eyes, having lost her religion in early life and being a great believer in 'sexual freedom.' Schreiner was pro-Boer in the Boer War, pro-native thereafter, and anti-war in World War One. Much of the book did not interest me much, but to the extent it was biography it was worth reading. ( ) ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Originally published in 1980 and long out of print, this fine work illuminates Schreiner's life and major writings through a portrayal of her "conscious struggles for self-definition" as a novelist, feminist and political activist. Born in 1855 to English missionaries working in Africa, hers was a lonely, self-educated childhood. She worked as a governess during the late 1870s, and when she sailed to England for medical training in 1881, had with her the manuscripts of three novels, including The Story of an African Farm, her best known. She was quickly taken up by London's intellectual circles; Havelock Ellis and Eleanor Marx were among her closest friends. On her return to Africa, Schreiner supported the Boer cause and took what she herself called an "almost painfully intense interest" in empire-builder Cecil Rhodes, although she quickly became disillusioned with both. Abhorring treatment of blacks as an "engine of labour," she became an outspoken advocate for black citizenship; and her Women and Labour published in 1911 reflected a lifetime of thought on "the Woman Question" and became a crucial work for early-20th-century feminists. The authors write insightfully of the split sense of self in a woman who made such an impact yet felt her life a failure. No library descriptions found. |
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