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Only An Anguish To Live Here: Olive Schreiner and the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 by Karel Schoeman is a biography of Olive Schreiner. During the Anglo-Boer War, Olive Schreiner took the part of the Boer Republics. Her eloquent defence of the Boers led to the alienation from her English-speaking family and many of her friends, isolation,ostracism and vituperation, and she spent the greater of the war in the small Karoo village of Hanover, experiencing intense loneliness and depression and suffering a breakdown from which she never fully recovered.