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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Olive Schreiner: A Brief Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Dreams
• I. THE LOST JOY
• II. THE HUNTER
• III. THE GARDENS OF PLEASURE
• IV. IN A FAR-OFF WORLD
• V. THREE DREAMS IN A DESERT
• VI. A DREAM OF WILD BEES
• VII. IN A RUINED CHAPEL
• VIII. LIFE’S GIFTS
• IX. THE ARTIST’S SECRET
• X. I THOUGHT I STOOD
• XI. THE SUNLIGHT LAY ACROSS MY BED
• Appendix A: South Africa
• 1. From Charter of the British South Africa Company (1889)
• 2. From Cecil Rhodes, “What We Were Fighting,” Examiner (13 November 1900)
• 3. From Sol Plaatje, Native Life in South Africa (1916)
• 4. From Women’s Enfranchisement League leaflet, with Schreiner’s notes (1908)
• 5. Letters from Olive Schreiner
• a. To Julia Solly (May–December 1908)
• b. To Will Schreiner (12 June 1898)
• c. To Edward Carpenter (3 April 1911)
• Appendix B: London
• 1. From Edward Carpenter, My Days and Dreams (1916)
• 2. From Constance Lytton, Prisons and Prisoners (1914)
• 3. From W.T. Stead, “The Novel of the Modern Woman,” Review of Reviews (March 1896)
• 4. Letters from Olive Schreiner
• a. To Havelock Ellis (24 April 1887)
• b. To Maria Sharpe (24 November 1887)
• c. To Karl Pearson (11 November 1890)
• Appendix C: Literary and Intellectual Influences
• 1. From John Bunyan, “The Author’s Apology for his Book” and “In the Similitude of a Dream,” Pilgrim’s Progress (1678)
• 2. “The Parable of the Wedding Feast,” Luke 14:7–24
• 3. From Herbert Spencer, First Principles (1860)
• 4. From Ralph Waldo Emerson, Lecture on the Times (1841)
• 5. From W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (1903)
• 6. Selected poems from contemporary Black South African poets
• a. I.W.W. Citashe, “Your Cattle are Gone” (written during the nineteenth century, published 1961)
• b. Sol Plaatje, “Sweet Mhudi and I” (1920)
• c. Mrs. A.C. Dube, “Africa: My Native Land” (1913)
• d. A.K. Soga, “Daughters of Africa” (1919)
• 7. From Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
• 8. From Edward Carpenter, “The Curse of Property,” Towards Democracy (1905)
• 9. Anna Kingsford, “The Armed Goddess,” Dreams and Dream Stories (1883)
• 10. Letters from Olive Schreiner
• a. To Edward Carpenter (26 October 1905)
• b. To Margaret Harkness (January/February 1891)
• Appendix D: The Reception and Importance of Dreams
• 1. Letter to T. Fisher Unwin (26 September 1892)
• 2. Arthur Symons, Review of Dreams, Athenaeum (10 January 1891)
• 3. Amy Wellington, Introduction to Dreams (1915)
• 4. Advertisement for Dreams, in Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)
• Appendix E: Schreiner’s Corpus
• 1. From The Story of an African Farm (1883)
• 2. From Woman and Labour (1911)
• 3. From From Man to Man (1926)
• 4. From “The Buddhist Priest’s Wife,” Stories, Dreams and Allegories (1891)
• 5. From “The Dawn of Civilisation,” Nation and Athenaeum (1921)
• 6. From “Diamond Fields” (1872)
• 7. From “The Lingua Franca of the World,” Review of Reviews (1896)
• Works Cited and Select Bibliography