THE STORY OF AN AFRICAN FARM - OLIVE SHREINER

 The Story of an African Farm,  published in 1883, with its authorship  to the pseudonymous Ralph Iron. The author was later revealed to be . It was a , both praised and condemned for its powerfully , unconventional, and anti-Christian views on religion and marriage.

The novel draws on Schreiners memories of growing up on the isolated South African . Its protagonist, Lyndall, lives on an ostrich farm, and her choices are constrained by the strict conventions of  life. She struggles to achieve the freedom to make her own choices, rejecting marriage but deciding to have a child; she dies in childbirth. Her inner journey is paralleled by that of her suitor Waldo, who longs for spiritual and  freedom.

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