Schreiner

[ shrahy-ner ]

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noun

Schreiner

/ ˈʃraɪnə /

SchreinerOlive (Emilie Albertina)18551920FSouth AfricanWRITING: novelistPOLITICS: feminist writer Olive ( Emilie Albertina ). 1855–1920, South African novelist and feminist writer, whose works include the autobiographical The Story of an African Farm (1883) and Women and Labour (1911)

He added that he had extremely limited contact with Bauer, Schreiner, and his daughter.

There was Mr Schreiner, the Premier, almost boyish with plump, smooth cheeks and a dark moustache.

Its only writer is Mrs. Cornwright-Schreiner—the daughter of a German.

Olive Schreiner herself is the first to admit that there are exceptions.

The vigor and freshness and inspiration of the air and the sunwell, it was all just as Olive Schreiner had made it in her books.

After in vain trying to enlist Mr. Schreiner as a recruit, Mr. Reitz asked him to state the reason of his refusal.

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