Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism: Evolution, Gender and Empire

by Carolyn Burdett

Olive Schreiner and the Progress of Feminism explores two key areas: first, the debates taking place in England during the last two decades of the nineteenth century about the position of women; and, second, the volatile events of the 1890s in South Africa, which culminated in war between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899. Through a detailed reading of the fictional and non-fictional writing of one extraordinary woman, Olive Schreiner,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333615328
• ISBN13: 9780333615324
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"