"One of the most influential women in South Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"

"Your gift of seeing into the heart of things is so great and you have control of such exquisite language for expressi…"

"She trained to be a teacher, refused to marry, and when she turned thirty, decided to study further at the all-female…"

"She rejected the Christianity of her parents and joined the philosophical and spiritualist Theosophical Society. She …"

"One hundred years hence, what a change will be made, In politics, morals, religion and trade, In statesmen who wrangl…"

"Our laws then will be uncompulsory rules, Our prisons converted to national schools."

"Oppression and war will be heard of no more, Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will …"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"... Horticultural Show in the Temple Gardens. I go every year now, and should be sorry to miss it. How odd it seems, …"

"Many people would say, 'So strict a way of would make life unbearable,' but after a time this strictness so changes t…"