Closer Union

Name: Closer Union
Brand: White Press
SKU: 9781473322417
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A Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government

Автор: Olive Schreiner

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: White Press

Наличност: Външен склад

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This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it w...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Olive Schreiner

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

EAN

9781473322417

ISBN

1473322413

Enbook ID

12204967

Издател

White Press

Теглоt

Размери

140 x 216 x 3

Пълно описание

This early work by Olive Schreiner was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Closer Union: A Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government' is a polemical work in which the author argues for greater rights for blacks and women in South Africa. Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner was born on 24th March 1855 at the Wesleyan Missionary Society station at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. In 1880, Olive set sail for the United Kingdom with the goal of taking a position as a trainee nurse at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh in Scotland. Unfortunately ill-health prevented her from studying and she was forced to concede that writing would and could be her only work in life. In 1883, she produced her first published work The Story of an African Farm which she penned under the pseudonym Ralph Iron. This novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults, and caused significant controversy over its frank portrayal of freethought, feminism, premarital sex, and transvestitism. She became increasingly involved with the politics of the South Africa, leading her to make influential acquaintances such as Cecil John Rhodes, with whom she eventually became disillusioned and wrote a scathing allegory in his honour.

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