Olive Schreiner (in full Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner), a South African Anglophone novelist and radical feminist, was born on a missionary station in South Africa in as the ninth child of Gottlob Schreiner, a German Methodist missionary, and Rebecca Schreiner née Lyndall, the daughter of a London Congregational minister. Young Olive was raised in a strict Calvinist tradition in the.