Dramatis Personae

The ‘Dramatis Personae’ provides biographical and other information about 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 in Olive Schreiner’s letters will also take you straight to this information.

Key:  signifies the person is a recipient (and mentioned) |  signifies the person is only mentioned

Name	Description
Earle, Mrs	(Maria) Theresa Earle nee Villiers (1836 - 1925) was a British horticulturist and the sister of Eliz...
Earp, Charley	Charles Earp (1863 - 1935) was the husband of Emma Earp nee Findlay.
Earp, Emma	Emma Leonora Earp nee Findlay (1868 - 1954) was a daughter of Katie Schreiner (Schreiner’s old...
Earp, Errol	Errol Earp was a son of Emma and Charles Earp. Emma Earp nee Findlay was Schreiner’s niece, an...
Eastty, Annie	Annie Eastty was a member of the Men and Women’s Club, and it was in this context that Schrein...
Ehrlich, Rose	Rose Ehrlich was a daughter of Wolf Ehrlich and his wife Helene Baumann. Rose’s father was of ...
Ellis, Edith	Edith Mary Oldham Ellis nee Lees (1861-1916) was a British feminist and writer who married Havelock ...
Ellis, Havelock	(Henry) Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939) was a British writer and pioneering sexologist. Ellis’s father ...
Ellis, Louie	Louie Ellis was a sister of Havelock Ellis. Schreiner came to know Louie in the context of her frien...