Millin, Sarah Gertrude
Millin, Sarah Gertrude (Liebson),
1889–1968, South African writer. The first of her novels about colonial and racial problems in South AfricaSouth Africa,Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2015 est. pop. 55,291,000), 471,359 sq mi (1,220,813 sq km), S Africa. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Namibia in the northwest, on Botswana and Zimbabwe in the north, on
..... Click the link for more information. is Dark River (1920). Later novels include God's Stepchildren (1924), What Hath a Man? (1938), The King of the Bastards (1949), and Two Bucks without Hair (1958). She has also written a study, The South Africans (1926), and biographies of Cecil RhodesRhodes, Cecil John
, 1853–1902, British imperialist and business magnate. Business Career
The son of a Hertfordshire clergyman, he first went to South Africa in 1870, joining his oldest brother, Herbert, on a cotton plantation in Natal.
..... Click the link for more information. (1933) and General Jan SmutsSmuts, Jan Christiaan
, 1870–1950, South African statesman and soldier, b. Cape Colony.
Of Boer (Afrikaner) stock but a British subject by birth, he was educated at Victoria College (at Stellenbosch) and at Cambridge, where he won highest honors in law.
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Bibliography
See her autobiography, The Measure of My Days (1955).