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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
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| Name | Description |
|---|---|
 L'Overture, Toussaint | François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (1743 - 1803) was the leader of the Haitian Revolution whic... |
 Lankester, E. Ray | Sir (Edwin) Ray Lankester (1847-1929) was a British zoologist who also took an interest in social ma... |
| Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick | Emmeline Pethick Lawrence (1867-1954) was a prominent British suffragette and married to Frederick P... |
| Lawrence, Frederick Pethick | Frederick William (Fred) Pethick-Lawrence (1871 - 1961) was a British Labour politician and leading ... |
| Lee, Vernon | Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) (1856 - 1935) was a professional writer and art historian. Lee was predomi... |
| Levy, Amy | Amy Levy (1862 - 89), poet and novelist, was a member of the New Woman circle in 1880s London. She... |
| Lewis, F. S. | F.S. Lewis was the librarian of the Cape Town public library, the present National Library of South ... |
| Lewis, Plum | Plum (Percy) Lewis was a young South African man Schreiner knew in London during the First World War... |
| Liebnecht, Karl | Karl Liebnecht (1871 - 1919) was a German socialist and co-founder of the German Communist Party. Li... |
| Little, Brown & Co | Little, Brown and Company is the US publishing firm established in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and... |
| Lloyd, E. Bertram | E. Bertram Lloyd was a friend of Edward Carpenter’s and also of Henry and Kate salt, as well a... |
| Lloyd, John T. | John T. Lloyd was a church minister in South Africa. He was ordained in London in 1876 and worked as... |
| Lloyds (The) | See John T. Lloyd |
| Loch, Elizabeth | Elizabeth Loch nee Villiers was the wife of Sir Henry Loch, High Commissioner for South Africa and G... |
| Loch, Sir Henry | Henry Broughham Loch (1827 - 1900) was a British colonial governor of military background. He marrie... |
| Lochs (The) | Refers to Elizabeth Loch and |
| Logan, James Douglas | John Douglas Logan (1857 - 1920) was a businessman and long-term proprietor of the hotel at Matjesfo... |
| Logans (The) | See John Douglas Logan |
| Lord, Frances | (Henrietta) Frances Lord (1848 - 1923) was a British translator and feminist. She rose to particular... |
| Low, Lady | Lady Low’s biographical details have not been traced but from references to her in Schreiner&#... |
| Lytton, Constance | Lady Constance Lytton (1869 - 1923) was the daughter of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, first Earl of L... |
| Lytton, Edith | Edith Bulwer-Lytton nee Villiers (1841 - 1936) was a daughter of Edward Ernest Villiers, the younger... |