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) |  signifies the person is only mentioned

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Name	Description
Orpen, Joseph	Joseph Millerd Orpen (1828 - 1923) was the husband of Schreiner's cousin Lily Orpen, Elise Pauline (...
Orpen, Lily	Elise-Pauline (Lilly, Lily) Orpen nee Rolland (1839 - 1915) was Olive Schreiner’s cousin and the dau...
Orpen, Maddy	Madeleine (Maddie or Maddy) Orpen was the daughter of Schreiner’s cousin Lily Orpen and her hu...