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Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/343 |
Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
Epistolary Type | Extract |
Letter Date | 16 February 1907 |
Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
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Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 263 |
Permissions | Please read before using or citing this transcription |
Legend |
The Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner were produced by Cronwright-Schreiner in preparing The Life and The Letters of Olive Schreiner. They appear on slips of paper in his writing, taken from letters that were then destroyed; many of these extracts have also been edited by him. They are artefacts of his editorial practices and their relationship to original Schreiner letters cannot now be gauged. They should be read with considerable caution for the reasons given. Cronwright-Schreiner has written the date and where it was sent from onto this extract, and that the reference is to women’s suffrage campaigns in Britain.
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…Those dear women in London. It’s the finest stand women have made
2anywhere in the world yet; because only a woman knows how hard it is
3for a woman to fight or seem to fight for herself. Because deep in our
4nature is something that makes us feel as if we should always fight
5for others…
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2anywhere in the world yet; because only a woman knows how hard it is
3for a woman to fight or seem to fight for herself. Because deep in our
4nature is something that makes us feel as if we should always fight
5for others…
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