Dream Life and Real Life - A Little African Story

Olive Schreiner

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Originally published in 1893, "Dream Life and Real Life - a Little African Story" is a short story that illuminates issues of ethnicity and gender through a tragic tale of a little girl that becomes enslaved by a family. Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) was a South African anti-war campaigner, intellectual, and author most famous for her highly-acclaimed novel “The Story of an African Farm” (1883), which deals with such issues as existential independence, agnosticism, individualism, and the empowerment of women. Other notable works by this author include: “Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government” (1909), and “Woman and Labour” (1911). Read & Co. Classics is proudly republishing this classic short story now in a new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 12 décembre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781473397163
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE
A LITTLE AFRICAN STORY
By
OLIVE SCHREINER

First published in 1893



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Dedication to My Brother Fred, For Whose Little School Magazine the First of These Tiny Stories—One of the First I Ever Made— was Written out Many Long Years Ago
O. S. New College, Eastbourne, Se pt. 29, 1893



Contents
Oli ve Schreiner
I DREAM LIFE AND REAL LIFE; A LITTLE A FRICAN STORY
II THE WOMAN’S ROSE
III THE POLICY IN FAVOUR OF PROTECTION—


Olive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was born on Wittebergen Reserve, Cape Colony (present-day Lesotho) in 1855. After finishing school, she found work as a governess and a schoolteacher, and during her free time began to work on a novel about her experiences in S outh Africa.
When Schreiner had saved enough money, she travelled to Britain, hoping to become a doctor. She lived in London where she began attending lectures at the Medical School, as well as attending socialist meetings. Schreiner met the publisher George Meredith, who in 1883 published her best-known novel, Story of an African Farm . A commercial and critical success, it is now seen as a defining work of early feminism – as is her later work, Women and La bour (1911).
Over the rest of her life, Schreiner made the acquaintance of a number of figures in London society, including future Prime Minister William Gladstone. In 1889, she returned to South Africa to be with her family. Her brother, William Schreiner, later became prime minister of Cape Colony. Over the next few years she published two collections of short stories, Dreams (1891) and Dream Life and Real Life (1893). She also became heavily involved in politics, and was a fierce opponent of racism and imperialism. Her 1897 work Trooper Peter Halkett of Mashonaland (1897) was a strong attack on British rule in S outh Africa.
At the outbreak of the First World War, Schreiner moved back to Britain. Over the next four years she was active in the peace movement and worked closely with organizations such as the Union of Democratic Control and the Non-Conscription Fellowship. She returned to South Africa in of August 1920, and dying following a heart attack late r that year.


KOPJES—In the karoo, are hillocks of stones, that rise up singly or in clusters, here and there; presenting sometimes the fantastic appearance of old ruined castles or giant graves, the work of human hands.
KRAAL—A sheepfold.
KRANTZ—A precipice.
SLUIT—A deep fissure, generally dry, in which the superfluous torrents of water are carried from the karoo plains after thunderstorms.