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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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| MacDonald, George | George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish writer and poet and also a Christian minister. In a le... |
| Macfayden, Irene | Irene Macfadyen was a member of the Cape Women’s Enfranchisement League (WEL) and for a time s... |
| Mackenzie, John | John MacKenzie (1835 - 1899) was a London Mission Society missionary in South Africa and also an adv... |
| Malan, Commandant | Wynand Charl Malan (1872 - 1953) was a Boer soldier and farmer. He made a name for himself during th... |
| Malan, Francois Stephanus | Francois Stephanus (F.S.) Malan (1871 - 1941) was a South African newspaper editor, politician and c... |
| Marriot, Aileen | Aileen Marriott was the wife of Edward Marriott. Schreiner met the couple when she was staying at Ma... |
| Marriot, Major Edward | Edward Frere Marriott (1854 - 1903) was a member of the Indian Staff Corps and worked in the Militar... |
| Marriots (The) | Refers to Aileen Marriott and |
| Marshall, Catherine | Catherine Elizabeth Marshall (1880 - 1960) was a prominent British feminist and internationalist, an... |
| Martin, Mr | Reverend G.A. Martin (in some letters he is referred to as Martain) had formerly been a member of th... |
| Marx, Eleanor | Eleanor Marx (1855 - 1898), the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, became a close friend of Olive Schre... |
| Masabalala, Samuel | Samuel Masabalala - referred to as Masabela by Schreiner - was a black political and labour leader ... |
| Mattison, Alfred | Alfred Mattison, usually referred to as Alf or Mat by Schreiner and other friends, was a prominent f... |
| McNaughton, Margaret | Margaret McNaughton was someone Schreiner met while she was living in Colesburg in 1874 working as g... |
| Merriman, Agnes | Agnes Merriman nee Vintcent (1854 - 1923) was the wife of John X. Merriman and the daughter of Josep... |
| Merriman, John X. | John Xavier Merriman (1841-1926) was a prominent South African politician and the last Prime Ministe... |
| Mill, John Stuart | John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) was a British writer and philosopher whose work had a powerful and la... |
| Milner, Alfred | Alfred Milner (1854 - 1925) was Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner for South Africa f... |
| Moffat, John | John Moffat (1835 - 1918) was a London Missionary Society missionary variously stationed in Bechuana... |
| Molteno, Betty | Elizabeth (Betty) Molteno (1852 - 1927) was one of Olive Schreiner’s closest and most loved fr... |
| Molteno, Charles | John Charles Molteno was a brother of Betty Molteno and Caroline Murray nee Molteno. He was the husb... |
| Molteno, Lucy | Lucy Molteno was the wife of John Charles Molteno, a brother of Betty Molteno and Caroline Murray ne... |
| Molteno, Margaret | Margaret Molteno was a daughter of Percy Molteno and lived in Britain; she married her cousin George... |
| Molteno, Percy | Percy Alport Molteno (1861 - 1937) was a brother of Schreiner’s close friends Betty Molteno an... |
| Montefiore, Dora | Dorothy (Dora) Frances Montefiore (nee Fuller) (1851 - 1933) was a British socialist and feminist ac... |
| Moore, George | George Augustus Moore (1852 - 1933) was an Irish writer and novelist. Schreiner’s letters duri... |
| Muirhead, Lene | Lene or Lena Muirhead was the wife of Schreiner’s friend Bob Muirhead. In her letters to Muirh... |
| Muirhead, Robert Franklin | Robert Muirhead was a mathematics teacher who also worked for the Glasgow Socialist League and Edwar... |
| Müller, Henrietta | (Frances) Henrietta Müller (1851 - 1906) was a member of the Men and Women’s Club and a friend... |
| Murray, A. Haldane | (Andrew) Haldane Murray (1866 - 1916) was married to Schreiner's friend Mimmie Murray. He was a son ... |
| Murray, Andre | Andre Murray was a daughter of Schreiner’s friends A. Haldane and Mimmie or Minnie Murray who ... |
| Murray, Bobbie | Bobbie Murray was a son of Schreiner’s friends A. Haldane and Mimmie Murray who lived on the f... |
| Murray, Caroline | Caroline Murray nee Molteno (1853 - 1937) was a daughter of Sir John Molteno, who had been the first... |
| Murray, Charles | Dr Charles Frederick Kennan Murray (1847 - 1930) was married to Schreiner’s friend Caroline Murray a... |
| Murray, George | George Murray (1893 - 1918) was a son of Schreiner’s friend Caroline Murray and her husband Ch... |
| Murray, Kathleen | Kathleen Murray (1891 - 1984) was a daughter of Schreiner’s friend Caroline Murray and her hus... |
| Murray, Lennox | Lennox Murray was a son of Schreiner’s friend Caroline Murray and her husband Charles. When Le... |
| Murray, Mimmie or Minnie | Mimmie or Minnie Murray nee Parkes (1865-1929) was a friend of Schreiner's who lived and worked on t... |
| Mushet(t), Mr | James Wellwood Mushet (1881 - 1954) was a businessman and Cape parliamentarian. He grew up in Scotla... |
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