The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schreiner, Olive

SCHREINER, shrīnēr, Olive (better known by name of ), pseudonym &ldquo;,&rdquo; South African author: b. Basutoland, about 1860. In 1883 appeared &ldquo;Ralph Iron's&rdquo; first work, &lsquo;The Story of an African Farm,&rsquo; a book of much interest with simple yet forceful pictures, from the Boer country. Further publications are &lsquo;Dreams&rsquo; (5th ed., 1893); &lsquo;Dream Life and Real Life&rsquo; (1893); &lsquo;Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland&rsquo; (1897); and &lsquo;An English South African's View of the Situation&rsquo; (1899); a critique on the Transvaal difficulty from the pro-Boer position. She was married in 1894

to S. C. Cronwright with whom she published &lsquo;The Political Situation&rsquo; (1895).