Olive Schreiner (Writers and Their Work)

Olive Schreiner, who was born in South Africa, has become a central literary figure for our thinking about the complex debates surrounding gender, imperialism, and class between 1880 and 1920. Schreiner wrote novels, short stories, lyrical fragments, as well as non-fiction and political polemic and is a widely acknowledged significant contributor to the 'New Woman' debates of the fin de siecle.Carolyn Burdett is the author of 'Olive Schreiner (Writers and Their Work)', published 2013 under ISBN 9780746310939 and ISBN 0746310935.