From Man to Man | 
pick(1927) Two sisters come of age on a South African farm, then deal with betrayals by men they trust, and navigate social expectations and condemnation. It is of its time and sometimes too polemical. It was also unfinished when the author died so we don't get an ending. But what we do have is remarkable for its rhetoric which is rationalist, feminist, antiracist, and deeply humane. It's also a pretty good story, so rats on the ending.
swynn Also: back in its day, this was "banned in Boston" by the self-appointed censors of a few generations ago. I'm not sure the complaint, but guess that it has to do with mentions of divorce or atheism, or both. Read #BannedBooks ! 2y
Ruthiella I read her The Story of an African Farm 100 years ago. I didn‘t realize she‘d wrote more. 2y
swynn @Ruthiella I picked this up because it's on a "Banned in Boston" list. I knew about but haven't read Story of an African Farm, and I'm more inclined now to seek it out. All I know about the rest of her work is what Wikipedia tells me. 2y
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