GC6CTM9 SA WRITERS: Olive Schreiner (Traditional Cache) in Western Cape, South Africa created by Google Mama

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Hidden : 3/20/2016

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This series was created to introduce some South African writers (not necessarily born in the Klein Karoo) and to enhance the experience of the yearly arts and cultural festival which takes place during April of each year.

She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of an African Farm which has been highly acclaimed since its first publication in 1883.

Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (1855–1920) was the ninth of twelve children born to a missionary couple (Gottlob and Rebecca) at the Wesleyan Missionary Society near Herschel in the Eastern Cape. She was named after her three older brothers - Oliver, Albert and Emile - who died before she was born. Her childhood was a harsh one as her father was loving and gentle, though impractical, which led to difficulties for the family; but her mother Rebecca was intent on teaching her children the same restraint and self-discipline that had been a part of her upbringing. Olive received virtually all of her initial education from her mother, who was a well-read and gifted woman.

However, Olive's real ambitions did not lie in the direction of writing. She had always wanted to be a doctor, but had never had enough money to pay for the training. Undaunted, she decided that she would be a nurse as that did not require her to pay anything. By 1880, she had saved enough money for an overseas trip, and she applied to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her ill-health prevented her from completing any form of training or studying. She was forced to concede that writing would and could be her only work in life.

In 1889 Schreiner chose to return to South Africa. In 1913, due to ill health she returned to England, but got trapped with the outbreak of World War I. After WWI she again returned to Cape Town where she died in her sleep.

She was buried later in Kimberley. After the death of her husband her body was exhumed and along with her baby, dog and husband, she was reburied atop Buffelskop mountain near Cradock, in the Eastern Cape.

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