Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Olive Schreiner: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

The Story of an African Farm

• Dedication
  Epigraph
  Preface to the Second Edition
  Glossary
  Contents

Appendix A: Historical Contexts

1. James Anthony Froude, from Two Lectures on South Africa (1880)
2. Olive Schreiner, from Thoughts on South Africa (1891;1923)

Appendix B: Philosophical Contexts

1. Herbert Spencer
1. From “Progress: Its Law and Cause” (1857)
2. From First Principles of a New System of Philosophy (1871)
2. Charles Darwin, from On the Origin of Species (1859)

Appendix C: Social Contexts

1. John Stuart Mill, from The Subjection of Women (1869)
2. Havelock Ellis, from Sex in Relation to Society (1910)
3. Olive Schreiner, from Woman and Labor (1911)

Appendix D: Literary Contexts

1. Olive Schreiner, from Dreams (1890)
2. Charles Dilke, from Problems of Greater Britain (1890)

Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews

1. Henry Norman, “Theories and Practice of Modern Fiction,” The Fortnightly Review (December 1883)
2. Canon Malcolm MacColl, “An Agnostic Novel,” The Spectator (13 August 1887)
3. H. Rider Haggard, “About Fiction,” Contemporary Review (February 1887)
4. Andrew Lang, “Theological Romances,” Contemporary Review (June 1888)

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