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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 |
|---|---|
 S, Eduard | No further information about this person is currently available |
| Salt, Kate | Kate Salt nee Joynes and Henry Salt, an erstwhile teacher at Eton, were friends of Edward Carpenter ... |
| Sauer, Johannes Wilhemus | Johannes Sauer (1850 - 1913) was a Cape politician and Union cabinet minister and husband of Schrein... |
 Sauer, Mary | Mary Sauer nee Cloete (1863 - 1937) was a close friend of Olive Schreiner’s and wife of the Ca... |
| Sauer, Paul Oliver | Paul Sauer was the son of Schreiner’s close friend Mary Sauer and her husband Johannes. He lat... |
| Sauerlander, Ellen | Ellen Sauerlander was for a time the manager of the Grand Hotel at Muizenberg near Cape Town, owned ... |
| Sauers (The) | Refers to Johannes Sauer and |
| Schreiner, Bill | William Francis Reitz (Bill) Schreiner (born 1886) was the elder of Will and Fan Schreiners two son... |
| Schreiner, Ellie | Helen (Ellie) Schreiner (1864-1865) was the twelfth and last child of Gottlob and Rebecca Schreiner.... |
| Schreiner, Emma | Emma Schreiner nee Chapman was married to Schreiner’s eldest brother Fred. Together they had a... |
| Schreiner, Fan | Fan (Frances Hester) Schreiner (nee Reitz) (1852 - 1931) was Will Schreiner's wife and Olive Schrein... |
| Schreiner, Fred | Frederick Samuel (Fred) Schreiner (1840 - 1901) was Olive Schreiner’s eldest brother. He was educate... |
| Schreiner, Gottlob | Gottlob Schreiner (1814-1876) was born in fairly humble circumstances in Germany; he received theolo... |
| Schreiner, Lyndall | Frances Lyndall (‘Dot’) Schreiner (born between 1887 and 1889) was the eldest daughter o... |
| Schreiner, Oliver | Oliver Deneys Schreiner (1890 - 1980) was the younger son of Will and Fan Schreiner. Like his father... |
| Schreiner, Rebecca | Rebecca Lyndall (18hh-1903), from Hoxton in London, came from an evangelical Non-Conformist (origina... |
| Schreiner, Theophilus | Theophilus Lyndall (Theo) Schreiner (1844 - 1920) was an elder brother of Olive Schreiner's, a teach... |
| Schreiner, Ursula | Ursula Hester Schreiner (born 1892) was the younger of the two daughters of Will and Fan Schreiner. ... |
| Schreiner, Wilfred | Wilfred Schreiner was the son of Fred Schreiner and his wife Emma. Olive Schreiner spent some consid... |
| Schreiner, William Philip | William Philip Schreiner (1857 - 1919) was a Cape politician and Olive Schreiner's younger brother. ... |
| Scott, Dr Percy | Variously referred to in Schreiner’s letters as Ralph, Sidney and Percy, he married Ursula Sch... |
| Settle, General | No further information about this person is currently available |
| Sharpe, Maria | Maria Sharpe (1853-1928) was the younger sister of Elisabeth Cobb, and she too was a member of the M... |
| Shaw, George Bernard | A polymath, George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) was a major playwright, critic and polemicist. Irish b... |
| Shippard, Ella | Ella Shippard was a daughter of the British colonial administrator and ally of Rhodes, Sir Sidney Sh... |
| Shippards (The) | See Ella Shippard |
| Silke, Hannie | Hannie Silke may have been a sister of Fan Schreiner (nee Reitz), who married one of the Silkes, wit... |
| Silke, Keetje | Keetje Silke was a cousin at remove of Fan Schreiner (nee Reitz); however, she was a member of the S... |
| Simon, Sir John | Sir John Simon (1873 - 1954) was a British lawyer and politician. In 1913, he was Attorney-General a... |
| Sivewright, James | James Sivewright (1848 - 1916) was a prominent South African politician and statesman of Scottish bi... |
| Smith, Adela Villiers | Adela Constance Smith nee Villiers (born 1872) was the daughter of Colonel Ernest Villiers and Adela... |
| Smith, Alys Pearsall | Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith (1867 - 1951) was born in Philadelphia, USA. Her parents were Rob |
| Smuts, Isie | Sybella Margaretha (‘Isie’) Smuts (nee Krige) (1870 - 1954) was the wife of Jan Smuts an... |
| Smuts, Jan | Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870 - 1950) is one of the most prominent figures in South African history. In... |
| Smuts (The) | Refers to Sybella Margaretha ('Isie') Smuts and |
| Soga, A K | Allan Kirkland (A.K.) Soga was the son of the famous Tiyo Soga (1829 - 1871), a Xhosa missionary and... |
| Solly, Julia | Julia Solly nee Muspratt (1862 - 1953) was a feminist and temperance worker. Born in England, she wa... |
| Solomon, Daisy | Daisy Dorothea Solomon was the daughter of Georgiana and Saul Solomon. She became keenly involved in... |
| Solomon, Georgiana | Georgiana Margaret Solomon (nee Thomson) (1844 - 1933) was the wife and then widow of the prominent ... |
| Solomon, Richard | Richard Prince Solomon (1850 - 1913) was a South African barrister and politician. He was a nephew o... |
| Solomon, Saul | Saul Solomon (1817 - 1892) was a printer, newspaper proprietor and Cape parliamentarian. He was born... |
| Sormus, Eduard | Eduard Sormus (1878 - 1940) was an Estonian-Russian violinist. After taking part in the 1905 Russian... |
| Spencer, Herbert | Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) was a British sociologist, writer and social theorist whose work had a p... |
| Spiller, Gustav | Gustav Spiller (1864 - 1940) was the Secretary of First Universal Races Congress. Schreiner received... |
| Sprigg, Sir Gordon | Sir (John) Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913) was a British colonial administrator and politician. He travell... |
| Stakesby Lewis, Henrietta | Henrietta Rebecca (Ettie or Het) Stakesby Lewis (nee Schreiner) (1850 - 1912) was Olive Schreiner’s ... |
| Stakesby Lewis, John | John Stakesby Lewis (died 1898) married Schreiners sister Ettie in October 1891 in London, although ... |
| Stead, William Thomas | William Thomas (W.T.) Stead (1849-1912) was a prominent British journalist, high profile newspaper e... |
| Steinmann, W. | Schreiner sent a cheque for two bottles of claret along with a brief note to W. Steinmann in January... |
| Stephen, Leslie | Leslie Stephen (1832 - 1904) was a British writer, literary critic and pioneering editor of the D |
| Steyn, Gladys | Gladys Steyn was a daughter of Marthinus Theunis Steyn and his wife ‘Tibbie’. She was th... |
| Steyn, Marthinus | Marthinus Theunis Steyn (1857 - 1916) was an advocate, judge and last president of the independent O... |
| Stuart, Katie | Katie Harriet Rebecca Stuart nee Findlay (born 1862) was the eldest daughter of Schreiners sister C... |
| Stuart, Will | Will Stuart was the son of Schreiner’s niece Katie Stuart. Will Schreiner later gave him finan... |
| Sutton, Kitty | Kittie Sutton nee Reitz was a sister of Frances (Fan) Schreiner. |
| Swanwick, Helena | Helena Swanwick nee Sickert (1864 - 1929) was German by birth from a family which settled in Britain... |
| Symons, Arthur | Arthur William Symons (1865-1945) was a British writer and literary scholar. At the age of seventeen... |