The Story of an African Farm Author:Olive Schreiner Doris Lessing has also described Olive Schriener as "a suffragette before there were any." The essence of her novel is "an endeavor, a kind of hunger, that passionate desire for growth and understanding, which is the deepest pulse of human beings." Lyndall, the heroine, was the first of her kind in fiction. — This moving novel shows the English B... more »oer and German settlers of South Africa, the richness as well as the loneliness of their lives as background to the struggle of the young heroine in her search for self-fulfillment. The central decisions which she made are no different than the ones being confronted today.« less