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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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![]() | Mrs E.M. Walters, sometimes referred to in Schreiner’s letters as Minnie, was a close friend o... |
![]() | Mary Weakley and her husband George Robert Weakley lived in Colesberg and employed Olive Schreiner a... |
![]() | George Robert Weakley and his wife Mary Weakley lived in Colesberg and employed Olive Schreiner as g... |
![]() | Refers to George Robert Weakley and |
![]() | (Martha) Beatrice Webb nee Potter (1858 - 1943) was a pioneering British social and economic reforme... |
![]() | See Beatrice Webb |
![]() | Howard Hinton married and had two children with Maud Weldon, when he was already married to Mary Ell... |
![]() | Dr Charles Whitby was a second cousin of Olive Schreiner’s. From Schreiner’s mentions of... |
![]() | Maud White nee Cameron was a mutual friend of Olive Schreiner and Mary Sauer. |
![]() | Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a famous Irish playwright, poet and writer. H... |
![]() | Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839 - 1898) was a prominent American-born suffragist and social activist... |
![]() | Dr Wilson (personal name unknown) was Schreiner’s doctor while she lived in Hanover during the... |
![]() | Mrs Wilson (personal name unknown) was the wife of Dr Wilson, Schreiner’s doctor in Hanover. F... |
![]() | Charlotte Mary Wilson (nee Martin) (1854 - 1944) was a feminist and anarchist friend of Schreiner... |