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The Story of an African Farm
Cocoa-brown cloth, pictorially decorated in darker brown, spines lettered in gilt
First edition cover
AuthorOlive Schreiner (Ralph Iron)
CountryCape Colony
LanguageEnglish
GenreBildungsroman, philosophical fiction
Set inKaroo, mid-late 19th century
PublisherChapman & Hall
Publication date
1883
Pages644, in two volumes
OCLC471800625
Dewey Decimal
823.8

The Story of an African Farm (published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron) was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel. It was an immediate success and has become recognised as one of the first feminist novels.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Olive Schreiner's "The Story of an African Farm" As an Early New Woman Novel". victorianweb.org.
  2. ^ Barends, Heidi. "Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm: Lyndall as transnational and transracial Feminist." English Academy Review 32, no. 2 (2015): 101-114.

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