Woman and Labour

by Olive Schreiner

Book Overview

It is necessary to say a few words to explain this book. The original title of the book was "Musings on Woman and Labour." It is, what its name implies, a collection of musings on some of the points connected with woman's work. In my early youth I began a book on Woman. I continued the work till ten years ago. It necessarily touched on most matters in which sex has a part, however incompletely.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1514383098
• ISBN13: 9781514383094
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

a strong, outspoken woman's opinion

Olive Schreiner (born in 1855) was a Victorian revolutionist and feminist. At 12 she has left her parents home. At 15 she was an independant working woman. At 26 she was already an author of a successful novel ("The Story of an African Farm."), the first major white South African writer of fiction, and a member of England's literary and intellectual élite. Her books speak against late nineteenth-century, early twentieth-century imperialism, war, and oppression of women. Woman and Labour (1911) is her most influential feminist work, and was called the Bible of the early twentieth-century women's movement. Schreiner did not live to see the immense influence of her work, she died destitute in a boarding house in South Africa in 1913.