Schreiner, Olive (1855-1920)

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International Congress of Women (1919)

Eulogy for Jessie Bross Lloyd, January 22, 1905

T. Fisher Unwin to Jane Addams, January 26, 1914

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, June 26, 1915

Address at the Chicago Auditorium, July 22, 1915

List of foreign dignitaries who met with International Congress of Women delegates July 28, 1915

Jane Addams to Rosika Schwimmer, November 27, 1915

Rosika Schwimmer to Jane Addams, November 27, 1915

Report of the International Congress of Women, December 1915

Emily Greene Balch to Kathleen Elizabeth Royds, December 10, 1919

Olive Schreiner to Jane Addams, May 1915

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Birth Date

1855-03-24

Death Date

1920-12-11

Birthplace

Wittebergen Reserve, Cape Colony (today Lesotho)

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Olive Schreiner was a South African author and activist. She received relatively little schooling but was taught by her mother. Before her marriage, she worked as a governess. Schreiner wrote about the social conditions of South Africa and was an avid believer in feminism and anti-racism. As a writer, she wrote several influential books, including The Story of an African Farm, Undine, Woman and Labor, and From Man to Man, which was published after her death. Schreiner died in 1920 after a long period of declining health.

Schreiner married Samuel Cronwright in 1894. They had one daughter who died within a day.