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Dramatis Personae
The ‘dramatis personae’ provides biographical and other relevant information regarding all the people to whom Olive Schreiner wrote letters, and also concerning a large number of the people her letters mention as well. Where appropriate and possible, references to the South African and the Oxford dictionaries of national biography and also other relevant publications have been provided.
Just click on the letters of the alphabet below to see the information. In addition, clicking on the live links on people’s names when you search and read Olive Schreiner’s letters will also take you straight to this information
Click the letters to access the Dramatis Personae information
Key:  signifies the person is a recipient (and mentioned) |
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| Caird, Mona | (Alice) Mona Caird nee Alison (1854 - 1932) was a ‘New Woman’ writer who, in addition to... |
| Carpenter, Edward | Edward Carpenter (1844 - 1929), was a writer, socialist philosopher and a pioneering gay, women’s an... |
| Cartwright, Albert | Journalist Albert Cartwright (1868 - 1956) took up the editorship of the South African News i |
| Catt, Carrie Chapman | Carrie Chapman Catt (nee Clinton Lane) (1859 - 1947) was an American suffrage activist. She became c... |
| Cawood, Clifford | Annie Clifford Cawood (1864 - 1949) was the eldest child of Erilda and Richard Cawood on whose farm ... |
| Cawood, Dora | Dora Cawood was a daughter of Richard and Erilda Cawood, on whose farm Ganna Hoek Schreiner frequent... |
| Cawood, Erilda | Erilda Louisa Elizabeth Cawood nee Buckley (1842 - 1903) was born near Fort Beaufort and married Ric... |
| Cawood, Gladys | Sarah Gladys Cawood, who was born in 1872 and died in about 1949, was a daughter of Richard and Eril... |
| Cawood, Willie | William Kidger Cawood (1866 - 1906), known as Willie, was a son of Richard and Erilda Cawood, on who... |
| Chamberlain, Joseph | Joseph Chamberlain (1836 - 1914) was a British politician who by the beginning of the twentieth cent... |
| Chapin, Adele | Adele Chapin was the wife of the US Consul at Johannesburg, Robert Chapin, in the period leading up ... |
| Chapman, Frederic | Frederic Chapman (1823 - 1895) was a British publisher and it was his firm which first published Sch... |
| Chapman and Hall | See Frederic Chapman |
| Charles Moltenos | Refers to Lucy Molteno and |
| Chubb, Percival | Percival Ashley Chubb (1860 - 1960) was a prominent British Fabian. He was a member of the Progressi... |
| Churchill, Winston | Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965) was a British politician and twice prime minister.... |
| Clark, Alice | Alice Clark (1874 - 1934) was a British women's rights campaigner, pioneering historian, and a membe... |
| Clemes, Isabella | Isabella J. Clemes was a Mathematics teacher and a graduate of Newnham College, Cambridge. A member ... |
| Cobb, Elisabeth | Elisabeth Cobb (nee Sharpe), wife of the nonconformist banker, solicitor and Liberal MP, Henry Cobb,... |
| Colenso, Frank | Francis Ernest (Frank) Colenso (1852 - 1910) was a Zulu rights campaigner, son of the famous Bishop ... |
| Colenso, Harriet | Harriet (or Harriette) Emily Colenso (1847 - 1932) was the eldest daughter of John William Colenso a... |
| Colenso, Sophie | Sophie Colenso nee Frankland (born 1855) was the daughter of Sir Edward Frankland, Professor of Chem... |
| Conybeare, Emily | Emily Conybeare was a British feminist who visited South Africa in 1891. She was closely associated ... |
| Cornwall, Moses | Moses Cornwall (1841-1906) was the electoral returning officer in Kimberley who in 1897 had Cronwrig... |
| Corthorn, Alice | Alice Corthorn was a British medical doctor whose studies were in part funded by Olive Schreiner. Sc... |
| Costelloe, Mrs Mary | Mary Costelloe nee Pearsall Smith was an aunt of Schreiner’s friend Alys Pearsall Smith. She w... |
| Costelloe, Ray | Rachel Pearsall Conn (Ray) Strachey nee Costelloe (1887 - 1940) was a British feminist activist and ... |
| Costelloes (The) | See Mary Costelloe |
| Creswell, Frederick | Frederic Hugh Page Creswell (1866 - 1948) was born in Gibraltar but went on to become an important S... |
| Cronwright, Alfred | Alfred Cronwright (born 1874) was one of Samuel Cronwright’s brothers. |
| Cronwright, Beatrice | Ella Beatrice Featherstone Cronwright (born 1877) was Samuel ‘Cron’ Cronwright’s s... |
| Cronwright, Louie | No further information about this person is currently available |
| Cronwright, Louisa Zipporah | Louisa Zipporah Cronwright (1861 - 1929) was Samuel ‘Cron’ Cronwright’s eldest sis... |
| Cronwright, Morthland | Joseph Morthland Cotterill Cronwright (born 1872) was one of Samuel Cronwright’s brothers. He ... |
| Cronwright, Willie | No further information about this person is currently available |
| Cronwright, Zipporah | Zipporah Cronwright nee Featherstone (1835 - 1912) was Samuel ‘Cron’ Cronwright’s ... |
| Cronwright-Schreiner, Samuel | Samuel Cronwright (later Cronwright-Schreiner, later still Cronwright again) (1863 - 1936) was Olive... |
| Cross, G. W. | George William Cross (1851 - 1920) travelled to South Africa from Britain in 1877 to take up the min... |
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