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My analysis is underpinned by relevant life writing and feminist criticism, such as the notion of female.

— Anna Petronella van Heerden

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She gave up practicing medicine and came to Harrismith to farm cattle and was legendary among the boere here.

It investigates questions of nationalism, gender and sexuality in the autobiographical texts of Petronella van Heerden and Elsa Joubert.

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The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

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Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
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