ABSTRACT
On 6 August 1884, sexologist Henry Havelock Ellis wrote to his friend, Olive Schreiner: he thinks that he should say that one thing that makes her style so wonderful & unlike others is that its foundation is artistic rather than grammatical or logical. And that perhaps is why it seems to have such a specially close & direct relation to thought & emotion. Schreiner commenced writing From Man to Man whilst a teenager in South Africa, though unlike Undine and African Farm, she continued to work on it periodically until her death in December 1920. The openness of From Man to Man is therefore another aspect of its modernism, used to emphasise Schreiner's argument that greater collaboration and understanding between people of different sexes, races, and classes. The chapter shows how Schreiner uses modernist techniques to interweave her unique evolutionary ideas with her radical politics concerning gender, race, and class.
