Olive Schreiner
novelist · Cape Colony, South Africa · 1855–1920
A writer who grew up on the Karoo plateau of South Africa and wrote fiction while working as a governess. She made her name at twenty-eight with The Story of an African Farm, and left writings on women and work.
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1883 · The words of a hunter dying after a lifetime of cutting steps up a mountain of rock
By the steps that I have cut they will climb; by the stairs that I have built they will mount. They will never know the name of the man who made them. At the clumsy work they will laugh; when the stones roll they will curse me. But they will mount, and on my work; they will climb, and by my stair!
The hunter's tale in The Story of an African Farm
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