Only an Anguish to Live Here: Olive Schreiner and the Anglo-Boer War

First Edition 1992

Hardcover

Karel Schoeman 

.A fascinating biography of three of the most influential men in the history of South Africa; Paul Kruger, Cecil Rhodes, and Lobengula. From the blurb: "In this book based on Schreiner's largely unpublished letters and other contemporary sources, Karel Schoeman recreates her life during the war, and interprets her spirited defense of the Boers as a stage in her developing sense of social justice which within the next ten years was to make her an eloquent champion of the black population and of women's rights