From man to man, or, Perhaps only--
By: Olive Schreiner ; edited by Dorothy Driver
Contributors: Driver, Dorothy, editor
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: UCT Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9781775820703; 9781775821472; 9781775821496
Subjects: Women; Fiction; Social conditions
Other titles: Perhaps only
Description: "The story is about two white women, Rebekah and Bertie, sisters born into the racist and sexist society of mid-nineteenth South Africa. One sister remains in the Cape, marries and has children, the other becomes a kept woman and then a prostitute in London's East End. But, the novel asks, how far are marriage and prostitution really apart in a world where women are valued mainly for their bodies? From exploring white women's confinement to domesticity, the novel expands its gaze to include black women and girls, whose presence gradually informs Rebekah's struggle to re-create herself and educate her children (including her black foster-child) so that they may pursue a more humane and fulfilled destiny than was open to her generation. The new edition of From Man to Man, edited by Dorothy Driver, corrects the editorial and proofreading errors that marred previous editions. It also provides another ending, in Schreiner's own words, as told in a letter to a friend."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-480).
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the new edition (2015); title: Note on the text; title: Introduction to the first edition (1926); title: From man to man, or, Perhaps only; title: Appendix 1: The projected endings; title: Appendix 2: Genesis and composition of the novel; title: Recipients of letters.