Dreams

Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner, and intellectual. Born to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape, she had an extensive influence on both literature and society with her progressive views on race, gender, and labor. Schreiner's literary style was visionary and richly symbolic, which is evident in her best-known novel, 'The Story of an African Farm' (1883...