O schreiner short biography

A detailed biography of Olive Schreiner that includes images, quotations and the main facts of her life.
Short biography.
Professor George Deneys Lyndall Schreiner (hereafter referred to as Deneys), the second son of Oliver and Edna Schreiner, was born in Johannesburg in 1923.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a famous Irish playwright, poet and writer. He was born to intellectual parents in Dublin and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and Magdalen College, Oxford, after which he settled in London and became a prominent spokesperson for aestheticism and well-known for his flamboyant dress and clever wit. While he had previously published a number of poems, it was during the 1880s that Wilde began to experiment with other forms of writing, including essays and book reviews, and he subsequently established a career as a prominent literary critic and journalist. In mid-1887 Wilde took over the editorship of The Ladys World magazine and renamed it The Womans World. Under Wildes editorship the magazine took a more serious turn, publishing articles on politics and culture, alongside short pieces of fiction. He left The Womans World in October 1889 and the magazine folded shortly afterwards. During Wildes editorship,

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(1) Havelock Ellis, My Life (1940)

She (Olive Schreiner) possessed a powerfully and physically passionate temperament which craved an answering impulse and might even under other circumstances - for of this I could have no personal experience-be capable of carrying her beyond the creed of right and wrong which she herself fiercely held and preached; while, as she once remarked, if I were ever to do a bad action it would be really bad because it would be deliberate. For a brief period at this early stage of our relationship there passed before her the possibility of a relationship with me such as her own temperament demanded. But she swiftly realised that I was not fitted to play the part in such a relationship which her elementary primitive nature craved. I on my side recognised that she realised this and knew that the thought of marriage between us, which for one brief instant floated before my eyes, must be put aside. I have had no reason to regret that inevitable conclusion. We were not what can be technically, or even ordinarily, cal
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South African novelist, whose most famous novel is The Story of an African Farm (1883). Olive Schreiner was a central figure in the development of modern Anglophone literature in Southern Africa. She was a radical liberal and pacifist, she opposed racism, and struggled for women's rights. One of her brothers, William Phillip Schreiner, became prime minister of the Cape Colony.
The boy lay with his eyes wide open. He saw before him a long stream of people, a great dark multitude, that moved in one direction; then they came to the dark edge of the dark world and went over. He saw them passing on before him, and there was nothing that could stop them. He thought of how that stream had rolled on through all the long ages of the past – how the old Greeks and Romans had gone over; the countless millions of China and India, they were going over now. Since he had come to bed, how many had gone!(from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner, edited with an introduction and noted by Joseph Bristow, Oxford University Press,1998 , pp. 3-4)
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