Olive Schreiner in Rhodesia: an episode in a biography

Title: Olive Schreiner in Rhodesia: an episode in a biography
Creator: Walters, Paul S, Fogg, W Jeremy M
Date: 2007
Type: text
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6123
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004707
Description: Readers of biographies of Olive Schreiner - except for the pioneering work of Vera Buchanan-Gould (see 1948, 198-99) - could be forgiven for doubting whether Olive Schreiner ever was in Rhodesia. Although her husband's edition of her Letters includes three which cover this journey (Cronwright-Schreiner 1924a), he makes no mention of it in his Life (1924), and it is not touched on either in First and Scott (1980) or in Stanley's impressive biographical chapter (2002). Arguably, it does nothing to alter the by now well-established outlines of Olive Schreiner's life; yet, as we shall see, the visit itself might have meant the premature end of that life. Moreover, it documents Schreiner's visit to two sites of immense importance to her : the 'Hanging Tree' in Bulawayo which features in the (deliberately shocking) photographic frontispiece to the first edition of Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897), and, secondly, Cecil Rhodes's grave in the Matopos. In just over a decade (13 Aug. 1921), she too would lie in her chosen mountaintop tomb.
Format: 17 pages, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Walters, P.S. and Fogg, W.J.M. (2007) Olive Schreiner in Rhodesia: an episode in a biography. English in Africa, 34 (2).

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