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Three Dreams in a Desert

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Three short allegories about women and freedom, written by a South African novelist who spent her life arguing for both. In the first, a woman lies bound on the sand beside a man, unable to rise until the bands are cut. In the second, she comes to a river with no bridge and is told the only way across is for enough women to walk in and drown until their bodies make one.

It is barely twenty pages and it was read aloud at suffrage meetings across Britain for decades. Schreiner never softens the cost of what she is asking for, which is why it kept working long after gentler arguments were forgotten.

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Olive Schreiner

Schreiner published The Story of an African Farm in 1883 under the name Ralph Iron, having written it while working as a governess on Karoo farms, and it did something no English novel had done, which was to put the South African veld and a woman refusing marriage in the same book.