"Not love uniting you but greed, gold-thirsty native policy, cheap labour" Read the full letter
| Letter Reference | Olive Schreiner: Extracts of Letters to Cronwright-Schreiner MSC 26/2.16/358 |
| Archive | National Library of South Africa, Special Collections, Cape Town |
| Epistolary Type | Extract |
| Letter Date | 20 March 1907 |
| Address From | Hanover, Northern Cape |
| Address To | |
| Who To | S.C. (‘Cron’) Cronwright-Schreiner |
| Other Versions | Cronwright-Schreiner 1924: 265 |
| 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. The excised name is that of Julia Solly. There are some differences between this transcription and the version that appears in The Letters....
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…I have got a letter from Mrs… asking me to be one of the vice
2presidents of the Woman’s Suffrage League they are starting in Cape
3Town. She also sends me some papers on the C. D. Acts which I’ll
4show you when you come… To me there is nothing else in the world
5that touches me one in the same way. You will see that if you read my
6novel all other matters seem to me small compared to matters of sex, &
7prostitution is the most agonising central point. Prostitution,
8especially the prostitution of men of themselves to their most brutal
9level can’t really be touched till man not only says but feels woman
10is his equal, his brother human to whom he must give as much as he
11takes; & the franchise is one step towards bringing that about...
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2presidents of the Woman’s Suffrage League they are starting in Cape
3Town. She also sends me some papers on the C. D. Acts which I’ll
4show you when you come… To me there is nothing else in the world
5that touches me one in the same way. You will see that if you read my
6novel all other matters seem to me small compared to matters of sex, &
7prostitution is the most agonising central point. Prostitution,
8especially the prostitution of men of themselves to their most brutal
9level can’t really be touched till man not only says but feels woman
10is his equal, his brother human to whom he must give as much as he
11takes; & the franchise is one step towards bringing that about...
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Notation
The novel Schreiner refers to is From Man to Man.
The novel Schreiner refers to is From Man to Man.