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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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| Hadden, Mrs | Mrs Hadden appears to have been a neighbour of Schreiner’s, but whether in Kimberley, Johannes... |
| Haddon, Caroline | Caroline Haddon was the sister of Margaret Haddon, who married James Hinton. Caroline Haddon ran a g... |
| Haggard, H Rider | Sir (Henry) Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) was a British novelist and is often now most closely associa... |
| Haldane Murrays (The) | Refers to Minnie Murray and |
| Hall, H Fielding | Harold Fielding Hall was the author of The Soul of a People (1898), a book which had a profou |
| Hardie, Keir | (James) Keir Hardie (1856 - 1915) was the founder of the British Labour Party and also of the newspa... |
| Harkness, Margaret | Margaret (‘Maggie’) Elise Harkness (1854 - 1923) was a British writer and journalist, an... |
| Harris, Frank | James Thomas (Frank) Harris (1856 - 1931) was a British journalist and from 1886 he edited the influ... |
| Harte, Bret | Bret Harte (1836 - 1902) was an American novelist. Schreiner makes repeated reference in her letters... |
| Hay, William | William Hay (1845 - 1932) with his brother George was founder of the Cape Mercury, a n |
| Hemming, Alice | Alice Elizabeth Hemming nee Schreiner (1845 - 1884) was Olive Schreiner’s second eldest sister... |
| Hemming, Effie | Ethelwyn (‘Effie’) Brown nee Hemming was one of the daughters of Alice Hemming nee Schre... |
| Hemming, Elbert | Elbert Hemming was one of the children of Schreiner’s sister Alice Hemming and her husband Rob... |
| Hemming, Guy | Guy Hemming was one of the children of Schreiner’s sister Alice Hemming and her husband Robert... |
| Hemming, Robert | Robert Campbell Hemming, son a prominent Cape Town civil servant, married Olive Schreiner’s si... |
| Hemming, Wynnie | Winifred or Wynnie Hemming was a daughter of Alice Hemming nee Schreiner and her husband Robert, and... |
| Henderson, James | James Henderson (1867 - 1930) was a Presbyterian missionary in South Africa and the third principal ... |
| Hertzog, Barry | James Barry Munnik Hertzog (1866 - 1942) was a Boer general and South African politician. He studied... |
| Hinton, Daisy | Daisy Hinton was the younger of Margaret and James Hinton’s two daughters. She appears to have... |
| Hinton, Howard | Howard Hinton was the son of James Hinton. He seems to have shared some of his father’s sexual... |
| Hinton, James | James Hinton (1822 - 1875) was a British aural surgeon and writer on political, social, sexual and r... |
| Hinton, Margaret | Margaret Haddon (born 1825/6) was the daughter of John Haddon, a printer. She married James Hinton i... |
| Hobhouse, Emily | Emily Hobhouse (1860 - 1926) was a British social reformer and charity worker. Hobhouse’s moth... |
| Hobson, John Atkinson | John Atkinson Hobson (1858 - 1940) was a British economist, sociologist and social theorist who wrot... |
| Hodgson, Joan | Joan Wickham married Schreiner’s friend John Hodgson in August 1918. Her brief ‘reminisc... |
| Hodgson, John Lawrence | John Hodgson was an engineer and would be literary figure who became a friend of Olive Schreiner?s d... |
| Hofmeyr, Jan Hendrick | Jan Hendrik (‘Onze Jan’) Hofmeyr (1845 - 1909) was a prominent Cape politician and newspaper editor.... |
| Holub, Emil | Emil Holub (1847 - 1902) was a doctor and explorer, and of Czech birth. After studying medicine he w... |
| Hope, Hamilton | Hamilton Hope was the husband of Schreiner’s cousin Emmie Hope nee Rolland. Olive Schreiner st... |
| Hopkins, Ellice | Ellice Hopkins (1836 - 1904) was a British social activist who campaigned against sexual double stan... |
| Hunt, Albert | Albert Hunt was an employee of the Castle Mail Packets Company owned by Donald Currie. SchreinerR... |
| Hyett, Ida | Ida Hyett was Edward Carpenter's niece, the daughter of his sister Ellen and her husband Francis Ada... |
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