Olive Schreiner : South African Author, Anti-war Campaigner, Intellectual, best Remembered Today for her Novel "The Story of an African Farm"

March 24, 1855 — December 11, 1920

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A South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deals boldly with such contemporary issues as agnosticism, existential independence, individualism, the professional aspirations of women, and the elemental nature of life on the colonial frontier.

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March 24, 1855

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December 11, 1920

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