Lyndall, Schreiner's articulate young feminist, marks the entry of the controversial New Woman into nineteenth-century fiction. Raised as an orphan amid a makeshift family, she witnesses an intolerable world of colonial exploitation. Her only friends are Em and Waldo, children with destinies and longings very different from her own. Desiring a formal education, Lyndal leaves the isolated farm for boarding school in her early teens, only to return four years later from an unhappy relationship. She is unable to meet the demands of her mysterious lover and retires to a house in Bloemfontein. Delirious with exhaustion, Lyndall is unknowingly tended by an English farmer disguised as her female nurse. This is the devoted Gregory Rose, Schreiner's daring embodiment of the sensitive New Man.
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ISBN:0192828851 :
Physical Description:print xliv, 278 p. ; 19 cm.
Publisher:Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1992.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Selected bibliography -- A chronology of Olive Schreiner -- The story of an African farm -- Explanatory notes.
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