"A New Edition". 8vo, xv, 296pp. Original pictorially decorated yellow boards. London, Chapman and Hall. 1889, 1889.
Early edition of Schreiner's first novel. First published in 1883, The Story of an African Farm is now recognised as a pioneering feminist work.
"Lyndall, the heroine of Schreiner's novel, is unmistakably a prototype New Woman, and the novel was to earn Schreiner the title of 'The Modern Woman par excellence, the founder of the modern school'." (Ledger, 1997, p.2, quoting W.T. Stead, 'The Book of the Month: The Novel of the Modern Woman', Review of Reviews 10 (1894), 64).
Extremities rubbed, new endpapers and spine repaired. A good copy.
