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
Gandhi, Mohandas	Mohandas Karamchand (later given the title of Mahatma) Gandhi (1869 - 1948), Indian political leader...
Gandhis (The)	See Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi
Garnett, Richard	Richard Garnett (1835 - 1906) was a British librarian and writer. In 1851 he became an assistant in ...
Gau, Julius	Julius Gau (1845 - 1927) was briefly engaged to Olive Schreiner in 1872. She met Gau at the home of ...
George, David Lloyd	David Lloyd George (1863-1945) was a British Liberal politician and Prime Minister between 1916 and ...
Gie, Harry	Harry Gie was a friend of Olive Schreiner’s and a family connection of her sister-in-law Fan S...
Gillett, Margaret	Margaret Gillett (nee Clark) (1878 - 1962) was member of the prominent Quaker and shoe-manufacturing...
Gladstone, Herbert	Herbert John Gladstone (1854 - 1930) was the youngest son of William Gladstone and a prominent Briti...
Gladstone, William Ewart	William Ewart Gladstone (1809 - 1898) was a British Liberal politician and four times British Prime ...
Glasier, John Bruce	John Bruce Glasier (1859 - 1920) was a British politician highly prominent in the Labour movement. B...
Glasier, Katherine Bruce	Katharine St John Bruce Glasier (nee Conway) (1867-1950) was a British socialist politician. From a ...
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a German writer and polymath, widely regarded as the gr...
Gokhale, Gopal Krishna	Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866 - 1915) was an important figure in the Indian independence movement agai...
Goosen, Mrs	From Schreiner’s single extant letter to Mrs Goosen of 1909, it is evident that she was involv...
Graham, Aimye	Aimye Ismena Graham (nee Gavin) was the wife of Thomas Graham (1860 - 1940), an advocate and later t...
Greathead, Mrs	From Schreiner’s letters to Lucy Molteno written in London during the First World War, it is a...
Greene, Alice	Alice Matilda Greene (1858 - 1920) was the third child of William and Charlotte Greene (nee Smith). ...
Greene, Eva	Eva Greene nee Stutzer (1883 - 1979) was married to Edward Greene, a younger brother of Olive Schrei...
Greene, Florence	Florence Greene (1855 - 1939) was the eldest sister of Schreiner’s close friend Alice Greene. ...
Greene, Helen	Helen Greene (1870 - 1960) was the youngest sister of Schreiner’s close friend Alice Greene. H...
Greene, Polly	Mary Charlotte (Polly) Greene (1860 - 1951) was a younger sister of Schreiner’s close friend A...
Gregg, Colonel Thomas	Tommy Gregg (Lieut.-Colonel W.T.H. Gregg) married Lyndall (‘Dot’) Schreiner, Will and Fa...
Grey, Sir George	George Grey (1812 - 1898) was a British colonial governor and statesman. Grey had a military backgro...