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Contributor Number: 32

Born ABT 1810
Died ABT 1921
Father: Willem Van Heerden
Mother: Elizabeth Catharina Van Heerden

Married Georg Jacob Martin Children. Maria Petronella Martin  b.25 Apr 1867, m.19 Jan 1881, d.1953, 7 Children. Anna Sophia Martin  b.31 Dec 1871, d.18 Feb 1872, George Jacob Martin  b.26 Aug 1873, d.16 Oct 1874, Sidney Martin  b.23 Apr 1879, d.25 Apr 1963, 1 child. Willem Jacobus Martin  b.14 Apr 1880, d.30 Mar 1881, Elizabeth Catharina Martin  b.04 Jun 1882, 4 Children. Rosina Esther Martin  b.19 Dec 1883, d.26 Oct 1951, Emma Martin  b.20 Jun 1884, d.1951, 2 Children. Edward Van Heerden Martin  b.20 Oct 1885, d.1931, 1 child. John Henry Martin  b.20 Jun 1887, d.1931, Franke Martin  c.11 Mar 1891, d.25 Mar 1933, Gerbreg Martin  b.17 Apr 1893, d.1958, 1 child. Gerbreg Martin 2 children.

Notes: 1855 24 March: born at Wittebergen, Basutoland. Christened Olive Emilie A lbertina, the ninth child of Gottlob Schreiner and Rebecca Schreiner né e Lyndall, missionaries first sponsored in South Africa by the London Mis sionary Society. 1866 Gottlob Schreiner declared insolvent. Family disperses. 1867 Joins older brother Theo and attends his school at Cradock. 1870 Works for cousin at Lily Hope, Avoca, in first position as a governe ss. 1871 Meets free-thinking Willie Bertram at Hermon mission station. Read s his copy of Herbert Spencer's First Principles which confirms her agnos ticism. Her asthma attacks begin at around this time. Schreiner announce s that she is to be called "Olive," not "Emilie" any more. 1872 Briefly engaged to Julius Gau, a representative of a Swiss insuranc e company, whom Schreiner met through the Robinsons' network of free-thin kers. Joins her older brother Theo and older sister Ettie at the diamond- fields at New Rush (later know as Kimberley). Teaches children of local d iggers. Starts Undine and short stories. 1874 Purchases Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays. 1875 Undine nearly completed. Reading John Stuart Mill's Logic. Teachin g at the Fouches at Klein Ganna Hoek farm near Cradock. 1876 Father dies. Based at Ratel Hoek near Tarkastad. Reading Goethe an d Montaigne. She left Ganna Hoek at the end of April, 1876, and went as governess at R atel Hoek. Soon after this she is writing Thorn Kloof, the first title gi ven to the novel afterwards to be known as The Story of an African Farm . In July, 1876, she enters in her journal that she has not yet decided w hether to finish Undine or Thorn Kloof first, and adds (apropos of Undine ): "I have just finished reading over as far as I have written her out ( a very wicked woman) and I am not disgusted," and she hopes to take the c ompleted novel to her mother at the end of the year. On the 23rd Septembe r, 1876, we have her last reference to Undine: "I think I shall finish an d read over Undine tomorrow. Then to the new work [Thorn Kloof]." Olive first met Havelock Ellis in March http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/schreiner/undine.html 1879 Works for the Cawoods at Ganna Hoek. Early version of African Farm c omplete. 1880 Sends manuscript of African Farm to the Browns in England. Publishe r turns it down. Works on suggested revisions. 1881 Travels to England. Enrols as a nurse at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary b ut has to give up after several days because of ill-health. Seeks publish er for African Farm. 1883 Chapman and Hall accept African Farm on the recommendation of a read er's report by the eminent novelist, George Meredith. Published in two vo lumes in January, the novel proves as immediate success, and a second edi tion quickly follows. Fifteen editions will appear in Schreiner's lifetim e. 1884 Meets the sexologist Havelock Ellis and forms very close friendshi p with him. 1885 Participates in the radical Men and Women's Club convened by the fre e-thinking Karl Pearson, to whom Schreiner is strongly drawn. Meets the r adical socialist and homosexual emancipationist Edward Carpenter throug h the Fellowship of the New Life. George Moore, Irish exponent of natural ism in the novel, proposes to her; Schreiner declines him. 1886 Intellectual relationship with Pearson breaks down. Suffers mental a nd physical collapse. Leaves England for Europe. Still working on From Ma n to Man. Bryan Donkin, physician to many radical intellectuals, propose s to her; Schreiner declines him. 1887 Seeks publisher for her collection of allegorical and visionary writ ings. 1889 Meets the "decadent" and "symbolist" poet and critic Arthur Symons . Returns to South Africa in October. 1890 Begins series of periodical essays on South Africa (collected posthu mously in 1923). Meets Cecil Rhodes in Cape Town. Settes in Matjesfontein . 1891 Dreams published. 1892 Meets Samuel "Cron" Cronwright, an ostrich farmer. Working on furthe r allegories, including "The Buddhist Priest's Wife." 1893 Visits friends and family in England. Dream Life and Real Life publi shed. 1894 Marries Cronwright. He, unusually, takes her name. Asthma attacks se vere during summer months, forcing the newly-weds to leave for the bette r climate of Kimberley. 1895 Baby dies shortly after birth. No less than six miscarriages will fo llow. 1896 Publishes (with Cronwright-Schreiner) The Political Situation. 1897 Travels to England to publish fictional attack on Rhodes, Trooper Pe ter Halket of Mashonaland. 1898 Moves to Johannesburg. 1899 Outbreak of second Anglo-Boer War. Publishes her pro-Boer anti-war t ract, An English South African's View of the Situation, causing offence t o her brother Will, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony. 1900 Prominent in the women's protest movement in the Cape. Living unde r martial law in Hanover. 1902 Working on Woman and Labour, From Man to Man, and several stories, i ncluding "Eighteen -Ninety-Nine." 1903 Mother, a Roman Catholic convert, dies. 1906 Publishes pamphlet, Letter on the Jew. 1908 Supports South African federation. Letter on women's suffrage appear s in Cape Times. 1909 Publishes Closer Union in London. Supports Mahatma Gandhi's satyagra ha movement. 1911 Publishes Woman and Labour in London. 1913 Vice-President of Women's Enfranchisement Leage at Kalk Bay. Resign s because the League wants vote for white women only. Sails for England. 1914 Schreiner traveling in Germany at the outbreak of the First World Wa r. Goes to London. Begins work on pacifist tract, The Dawn of Civilisatio n (fragments published posthumously in Stories, Dreams, and Allegories. 1916 Publishes pacifist propaganda in Labour Leader. 1919 Suffering from depression. 1920 Cronwright-Schreiner travels to England after separation of five yea rs. Returns to South Africa. Dies of heart failure on 10 December at Wynb erg. 1923 Stories, Dreams, and Allegories and Thoughts on South Africa publish ed. 1924 Cronwright-Schreiner edits The Life of Olive Schreiner and The Lette rs of Olive Schreiner 1870-1920. 1926 From Man to Man published. 1929 Undine published. (Source: Introduction. The Story of an African Farm. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1 992. xxxiii-xxxvi.)