Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 13
Olive Schreiner: A Brief Chronology 49
A Note on the Text 53
Dreams 55
Appendix A South Africa 121
1 From Charter of the British South Africa Company (1889) 122
2 From Cecil Rhodes, "What We Were Fighting," Examiner (13 November 1900) 123
3 From Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916) 125
4 From Women's Enfranchisement League leaflet, with Schreiner's notes (1908) 127
5 Letters from Olive Schreiner 129
a To Julia Solly (May-December 1908) 129
b To Will Schreiner (12 June 1898) 130
c To Edward Carpenter (3 April 1911) 131
Appendix B London 133
1 From Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams (1916) 133
2 From Constance Lytton, Prisons and Prisoners (1914) 137
3 From W.T. Stead, "The Novel of the Modern Woman," Review of Reviews (March 1896) 139
4 Letters from Olive Schreiner 140
a To Havelock Ellis (24 April 1887) 140
b To Maria Sharpe (24 November 1887) 142
c To Karl Pearson (11 November 1890) 142
Appendix C Literary and Intellectual Influences 145
1 From John Bunyan, "The Author's Apology for his Book" and "In the Similitude of a Dream," Pilgrim's Progress (1678) 146
2 "The Parable of the Wedding Feast," Luke 14:7-24 148
3 From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1860) 149
4 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lecture on the Times (1841) 151
5 From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903) 153
6 Selected poems from contemporary Black South African poets 155
a I.W.W. Citashe, "Your Cattle are Gone" (written during the nineteenth century, published 1961) 155
b Sol Plaatje, "Sweet Mhudi and I" (1920) 155
c Mrs. A.C. Dube, "Africa: My Native Land" (1913) 156
d A.K. Soga, "Daughters of Africa" (1919) 156
7 From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) 157
8 From Edward Carpenter, "The Curse of Property," Towards Democracy (1905) 157
9 Anna Kingsford, "The Armed Goddess," Dreams and Dream Stones (1883) 159
10 Letters from Olive Schreiner 160
a To Edward Carpenter (26 October 1905) 160
b To Margaret Harkness (January/February 1891) 161
Appendix D The Reception and Importance of Dreams 163
1 Letter to T. Fisher Unwin (26 September 1892) 164
2 Arthur Symons, Review of Dreams, Athenaeum (10 January 1891) 165
3 Amy Wellington, Introduction to Dreams (1915) 169
4 Advertisement for Dreams, in Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) 173
Appendix E Schreiner's Corpus 175
1 From The Story of an African Farm (1883) 176
2 From Woman and Labour (1911) 179
3 From From Man to Man (1926) 185
4 From "The Buddhist Priest's Wife," Stories, Dreams and Allegories (1891) 187
5 From "The Dawn of Civilisation," Nation and Athenaeum (1921) 187
6 From "Diamond Fields" (1872) 190
7 From "The Lingua Franca of the World," Review of Reviews (1896) 191
Works Cited and Select Bibliography 193
