c.1890 The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner. New Edition.

This is a lovely copy of The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner (who published under the name of Ralph Iron) in used but good condition.
 
Title: The Story of an African Farm: A Novel. 
Author: Ralph Iron (Olive Schreiner)
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co: London. 
Published Date: undated. c.1890 A New Edition completing the ninety-fifth thousand
Pagination: pp [xv] 346 plus advertisements. 
External Size: 20cm x 14cm
Condition: Good
 
Bound in a dark green cloth with a beautifully decorative gilt design to the spine and with a slight forward lean. The boards are in good condition with some light bumping/scuffing to the edges and corners, and to the head and tail of the spine. Navy blue endpapers which are clean and free from inscriptions, though there is a superficial crack to both front and rear endpapers at the hinge. There is an ink inscription to the reverse of the front free endpaper. A couple of the preliminary pages are uncut, the pages are unevenly trimmed and age toned throughout. 
 
Schreiner, a South African, presents female experience within a colonial setting, and she questions ideas about gender, marriage, politics, race and labour relations. She is now regarded as a pioneering feminist writer, who influenced New Woman novels of the 1880’s and 1890’s by writing about women who fought traditional marriage and gender roles.