The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

Not either an Experimental Doll: the separate worlds of three South African women, correspondence of Lily Moya, Mabel Palmer, and Sibusisiwe Makhanya. Edited by Shula Marks.

Three women meet in the pages of this unusual book, published in 1987. Their letters illuminate much about the South African condition at that time. They also reveal the separate worlds South Africans inhabited, which were made more frightening and more separate by the divisions of age, ethnicity and race. But for all their differences, it is the passion these women had for education which brings the three together across the chasms of class and age and race and destiny. This unique and moving collection of letters addresses the singular experience of women and their interrelationships with one another within the broader social structures that made up the complexities of the South African reality.

Catalogue Access: https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/17499022

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.