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- As this is a personal tribute with aspects of a formal obituary, we have decided to refer to Professor Lewsen as Phyllis
- Lewsen , P. 1982 . John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman New Haven (P. Lewsen, ed., Selections from the Correspondence of John X. Merriman, 1870–1924, 4 vols (Van Riebeeck Society, vols 41, 44, 47, 50) (Cape Town, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969);P. Lewsen, ‘Olive Schreiner's Political Theories and Pamphlets, in C. Clayton, ed., Olive Schreiner (Johannesburg and New York, 1983);P. Lewsen, ‘Liberals in Politics and Administration’, in J. Butler, R. Elphick and D. Welsh, eds, Democratic Liberalism in South Africa: Its History and Prospect (Middletown and Cape Town, 1987);P. Lewsen, ‘The South African Constitution: Euphoria and Rejection’, Raymond Dart Lecture no. 19 (Johannesburg, 1982);P. Lewsen, ed., Voices of Protest: From Segregation to Apartheid (Johannesburg, 1988);P. Lewsen, ‘Not Free to Desist’, in R. Lee, ed., Values Alive: A Tribute to Helen Suzman (Johannesburg, 1990);P. Lesen, ed., Helen Suzman's Solo Years (Johannesburg, 1991)
- Lewsen , P. 1994 . A Dance to the Discords of Time (Limited photocopy edition, n.d. [?]), 95.This was published in a slightly altered form as Reverberations: A Memoir (Rondebosch, 1996). See also ‘Focus on Phyllis Lewsen’, South African Historical Journal 28 (May 1993), 3–33, including her essay ‘What History Means To Me’ and Sara Pienaar's excellent and probing interview with her
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- Pienaar , S. ‘Interview with Phyllis Lewsen’, 26
- Rogers , M. 1956 . The Black Sash: The Story of the South African Women s Defence of the Constitution League 21 Johannesburg In Mirabel Rogers's book on the Black Sash, she appears as Mrs Jack Lewsen: (On the Liberal Party, see R. Vigne, Liberals against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party in South Africa, 1953–68 (Basingstoke and New York, 1997), 233–4
- Pienaar . ‘Interview with Phyllis Lewsen’, 25
- Saunders , C. 1988 . The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class Cape Town (214n. 3. He was citing P. Lewsen, ‘The Oxford History of South Africa: An Attempt at Revaluation’, South African Historical Journal, 5 (1973)
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- Willan , B. 1984 . Sol Plaatje: South African Nationalist 1876–1932 London
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- Ibid., 84
- Ibid., 305
- Ibid., 183–4
- 1905 . Ibid., 2, O. Schreiner to J.X. Merriman, 15 May. Olive Schreiner's brother William to whom similar praise may have been thought due, eventually lost the support of Afrikaners. This loss was perhaps the result of his mission to England in the company of eminent African and Indian politicians to protest against the fact that the 1910 Constitution placed ‘Native Affairs’ beyond party politics
- Pienaar . ‘Interview with Phyllis Lewsen’, 28
- 1970 . Many students of the s probably remember successive SRC presidents' prefatory warnings to new ‘green’ first-years: ‘look to the left of you, now look to your right—one of those people may very well be a spy.’
- The ‘I’ here is Jane Starfield, writing on Modiri Molema. To my total delight, at the end of my reading, Phyllis said, ‘I'd no idea he had done so much’. You have no idea how I appreciate the effort it took her to say that
- 1993 . South African Historical Journal , 28 : 3 – 33 . ‘Focus on Phyllis Lewsen’, (May
- 1995 . South African Historical Journal , 33 Nov. For example, see her reviews published in the (of B. Bunting, ed., S.P. Bunting: A Political Biography by Edward Roux (Cape Town, 1993);T. Cameron, Jan Smuts: An Illustrated Biography (Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria, 1994), which she described as ‘free from adulation or debunking'A. Odendaal and R. Field, eds, Liberation Chabalala: The World of Alex la Guma by Alex la Guma (Bellville and Cape Town, 1993)
- Eliot , George . 1871–72 . Middlemarch 896 London
- Lewsen . John X. Merriman 372