The New Student's Reference Work/Schreiner, Olive

Schreiner (shrī-nẽr), Olive, whose pseudonym is Ralph Iron, was born about 1860 in Basutoland, South Africa, where her father, a German Lutheran clergyman, was a missionary in the service of the London Missionary Society. Her mother, however, was an English woman. In 1894 she married S. C. Cronwright. In 1883 she published The Story of an African Farm, a story of Afrikander life, replete with simple but forceful and fascinating pictures of South Africa and its peoples. Dreams, An English South African's View of the Situation (1899) and Trooper Halket are other publications of hers. Her husband and she also are joint-authors of The Political Situation (1895). Her judgments as to this and as to the Transvaal difficulties are those of one who, though half English, appreciates and sympathizes with the native Dutch of South Africa. Her home is at Hanover, Cape Colony.