Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner

Born: 24 Mar 1855, Wittebergen, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Marriage (1): Samuel Cron Cronwright M. P. on 16 Feb 1894 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Died: 11 Dec 1920, Wynberg, Cape Province, South Africa aged 65
Buried: Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa

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Spouses/Children:

1. Samuel Cron Cronwright M. P.

Cronwright

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bullet Burial Notes:

She was originally buried in Kimberly. After the passing of her husband, Samuel Cronwright, her body was exhumed. Olive Schreiner, along with her baby, dog and husband were laid to rest atop Buffelskop mountain, on the farm known as Buffelshoek, near Cradock, in the Eastern Cape.

bullet Sources of information or noted events in her life were:

• General Comment. She was named after her three brothers.

• General Comment. RAB and HB stayed in Olive Schreiner's house in Hanover, Free State.

• Occupation. Author.

Books by Olive SchreinerThe Story of an African Farm, 1883
Dreams, 1890
Dream Life and Real Life, 1893
The Political Situation in Cape Colony, 1895 (with S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner)
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, 1897
An English South African Woman's View of the Situation, a critique on the Transvaal difficulty from the pro-Boer position, 1899
A Letter on the Jew, 1906
Closer Union: a Letter on South African Union and the Principles of Government, 1909
Woman and Labour, 1911
Thoughts on South Africa, 1923
Stories, Dreams and Allegories, 1923
From Man to Man, 1926
Undine, 1929

• Web Based Info. http://www.witblitz.net/NAVWEB/ppl/4/8/b69c312bafa38b71384.htmll

And

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Schreiner

Olive married Samuel Cron Cronwright M. P., son of Samuel Cron Wright and Zipporah Featherstone, on 16 Feb 1894 in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa. (Samuel Cron Cronwright M. P. was born on 26 Jan 1863 in Bedford, Eastern Cape, South Africa, died on 8 Sep 1936 in Cape Town, Cape Province, South Africa and was buried in Cradock, Eastern Cape, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or n events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.witblitz.net/NAVWEB/ppl/4/8/b69c312bafa38b71384.htmll

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