A fantastic new project run by several UK universities has paid homage to the work of pioneering feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855-1920).South African-born Olive wrote daringly about big issues for the time - racism, women's education and agnoticism. Her novels, like The Story of an African Farm, were hugely popular, and her political writing provoked and inspired contemporaries.
Olive's 5,500 plus letters are now scattered throughout the world in over 40 locations, but the Olive Schreiner Letters Online project will make them all accessible at www.oliveschreinerletters.ed.ac.uk from January 2012.
2 comments:
This is such a great idea for a project! Bringing together all these letters held all over the world in one online place is admirable enough but I really like their aims to elevate the use of letters in social science and humanities research.
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