Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Schreiner, Olive
SCHREINER, OLIVE, a South African
novelist; born in Basutoland, 1863.
She is the daughter of a Lutheran
minister, and was married in 1890 to Mr.
Cronwright, an Englishman of the colony.
She published her first and most
noted book, “The Story of an African
Farm,” under the pseudonym “Ralph
Iron,” at the age of 20; “Dreams” (1890);
“Dream Life and Real Life” (1893);
“Trooper Peter Halket” (1897); “An
English South African's View of the
Situation” (1899); “Women and Labour”
(1911); etc. She died in 1920.