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    Gender and landscape in the works of Olive Schreiner
    (University of the Western Cape, 2022) Jacobs, Nicolette; Birch, Alannah
    My research will focus on the relationship between gender and landscape as portrayed in Olive Schreiner’s first published novel, The Story of an African Farm, and her much later novel, Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland, with reference to her letters and the non-fictional text, Woman and Labour. In The Story of an African Farm, Schreiner explores a young person’s viewpoints on religion, feminism and the social and physical environment of the Cape Colony. Published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Irons and widely recognised as among the first South African novels, the novel shows Schreiner’s interest in the emergence of female subjectivity revealed through the protagonist, Lyndall, in a landscape shaped by social hierarchies.