Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897)' is the only fictional work by Olive
Schreiner (1855-1920) to concern itself with the treatment of the black Africans by
the European settlers of southern Africa.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, Stephen Crane, Victor Hugo, James Fenimore Cooper, Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Madame de La Fayette, Joseph A. Altsheler, Benito Pérez Galdós, Harriet Martineau, Olive Schreiner, Charles Dickens & Lew Wallace