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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 |
|---|---|
 Pankhurst, Christabel | Christabel Harriette Pankhurst (1880 - 1958) was with Sylvia and Adela one of the daughters of Richa... |
| Pankhurst, Emmeline | Emmeline Pankhurst (nee Goulden) (1858 - 1928) was a prominent British suffragette leader. Married t... |
| Pankhurst, Sylvia | (Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 - 1960) was with Christabel and Adela one of the daughters of Richa... |
| Parker, Freddie | Dr Frederick Parker (1877 - 1922) was the husband of May Murray Parker, daughter of Schreiners frie... |
 Parker, May Murray | May Murray (1881 - 1972) was a daughter of Caroline and Charles Murray. She married a British medica... |
| Parker, Robert | Robert John Parker (1857-1918) was President of the Men and Women’s Club established by his fr... |
| Parkers (The) | Refers to May Murray and |
| Pearsall Smiths (The) | See Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith |
| Pearson, Karl | Karl Pearson (1857 - 1936) was a British mathematician and one of the founders of modern statistics,... |
| Pethick-Lawrences (The) | Refers to Emmeline Pethick Lawrence and |
| Philpot, Isaline | Isaline Philpot was the wife of Dr J.H. Philpot. Schreiner came to know the couple while she was liv... |
| Philpot, Dr J Henry | Dr J.H. Philpot was a prominent London physician and married to Isaline Philpot. Schreiner came to k... |
| Plaatje, Solomon | Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1875 - 1932) was a South African author, translator, journalist and polit... |
| Podmore, Frank | Frank Podmore (1856 - 1910) was a British writer and founding member of the Fabian Society. Podmore ... |
| Powrie, Catherine | Catherine Powrie (nee Rolland), and otherwise known as ‘Tattie’, was Schreiner’s c... |
| Pruse, Nelly | Nelly Pruse (later Riley when she married fellow artist Fred Riley) was an artist friend of Schreine... |
| Purcell, Anna | Anna Purcell (nee Cambier Faure) was a close South African friend of Olive Schreiner’s. She ma... |
| Purcell, Fred | Dr William Frederick Purcell (1866 - 1919) was married to Schreiner’s close friend Anna Purcel... |
| Purcell, Margaretha | Margaretha Purcell was the daughter of Fred and Anna Purcell. She later married R. D. Palmer. |
| Purcells (The) | Refers to Anna Purcell and |
| Pursglove, John | John Pursglove was an Englishman who had been employed on a farm in the Cradock district from the la... |