Sarah Gertrude Millin: A South African life by Martin Rubin (Author)

second hand

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ad. Donker; 1st ed edition (January 1, 1977)

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 284 pages

Sarah Gertrude Millin was born in Lithuania but moved to South Africa as a baby, where her upbringing in an impoverished region influenced her later literary work. At twenty-two, she married, moved to Johannesburg, and wrote her first novel. Her fourth novel, God’s Step-children, was the first that reflected her racial prejudice as a central theme. She published a plethora of novels pertaining primarily to South Africa’s people. Although Millin was an ardent Zionist, few of her publications reflected her profound interest in Jewish history. Her final works reflected her increasingly right-wing views supporting apartheid politics, tainting her literary reputation