This collection of Olive Schreiner's correspondence, containing some 550 letters, spans the years from 1871 to 1899, beginning with the period when she worked as a governess on several Eastern Cape farms, and ending with the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War. It includes the years she spent in England and Europe, before and after the publication of her novel "The Story of an African Farm". The work documents her relationships with various people, such as Havelock Ellis, Karl Pearson, Edward Carpenter and W.T.Stead and also the early years of her marriage to S.C.Cronwright, and includes details of their growing involvement in the political crisis in South Africa that was to culminate in the Anglo-Boer War.
- ISBN10 0198122209
- ISBN13 9780198122203
- Publish Date 25 February 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Oxford University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 422
- Language English