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Identifier: cu31924023481892
Title: The world through a woman’s eyes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Ackermann, Jessie A
Subjects: Women
Publisher: Chicago : [s.n.]
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the country. As we stood in the door of her house, Mrs.Schreiner pointed toward the hills with great enthu-siasm, told of the animals that prowl among thebushes, and seemed to revel in the beauty (?) of alandscape that to me breathed only of endless waste.She was, if anything, even more enthusiastic in herdelight in the great karroo. I just love it, said she, for its mighty vast-ness. I am filled with awe when I look upon itsalmost boundless stretches, spreading over miles ofuninhabited regions. I have almost a reverence forit. Then, pointing in the direction which we thenfaced, she added, Away over there, in a smallhouse, I wrote my story of An African Farm; itwas the majesty of the almost limitless karroo thatgave me my inspiration. I did not discuss the theology or social features ofthe book, which I fully intended to do, for she talkedon about the country and of things generally inwhich she is so well informed, that time wore apace,and I was obliged to depart without having gained

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Fish River, Sclireiner Farm. Africa. 281 the information whether or not the book expressedher own personal views. Later I was told that shewas but nineteen years of age when this remarkableproduction was brought out. It is said that from herpublishers she received the small amount of fourteenpounds, to which, however, they added large sumswhen the book proved such an astonishing success. The next in interest was Olive Schreiners hus-band, as he is generally called in South Africa.Mr. Schreiner, previous to his marriage with Olive,was a Mr. Conwright; but finding his wife unwillingto give up a name that had become known through-out the world, he took hers ; a proceeding made easyin that country by simply announcing in the papersfor a certain time that after such a date Mr. JohnSmith will be known as Mr. John Smith Brown, orGreen, as the case may be. Numerous criticismshave been passed pro and con on his unusual course,and I venture to say that sentiment generally is muchagainst a man l

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