The dark river, 1919: title page (Sarah Gertrude Millin)

OCLC, Sept. 25, 2007 (hdgs.: Millin, Sarah Gertrude Liebson, 1889-1968; Millin, Sarah Gertrude; usage: Sarah Gertrude Liebson Millin; Sarah Gertrude Millin)

Wikipedia, Sept. 25, 2007 (Sarah Gertrude Millin, née Liebson; husband, Philip Millin, was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa)

God's stepchildren, 1924: title page (Sarah Gertrude Millin)

General Smuts, 1936: title page (Sarah Gertrude Millin)

Jewish Women's Archive, via WWW, June 4, 2015 (Sarah Gertrude Millin, 1889-1968; Sarah Gertrude Liebson was born in Zagar, Lithuania on March 19, 1889; five months later her parents, Isaiah and Olga, immigrated to South Africa and the family settled in Beaconsfield near Kimberley; after matriculating at Kimberley High School for Girls in 1904 she studied music in Kimberley; she obtained a piano teacher's certificate but never practiced that career; on December 1, 1912 she married Philip Millin and they settled in Johannesburg; Philip, a lawyer who later became a judge of the Supreme Court, encouraged her literary ambitions; the Dark River appeared in 1919; she produced sixteen more novels, two major biographies, two autobiographies, six war diaries, a volume of short stories, a collection of essays and a sociological account of South Africa; in 1952 the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, conferred an Honorary Doctorate in Literature on Sarah Gertrude Millin; she died in Johannesburg on July 6, 1968)

Dictionary of African Biography, accessed March 4, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Millin, Sarah Gertrude; Sarah Gertrude Liebson; fiction writer; born 03 March 1888 in Zagar, Lithuania; wrote the biographies of Cecil Rhodes (1933) and Jan Smuts (1936) and nonfiction work on South African society (1919-1965); published her novels God's Stepchildren (1924) and The Wizard Bird (1962); visited the United States and was a houseguest of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (1930); supported the Nationalist Party; her work was popular in South Africa (1940s-1950s); avid supporter of white Rhodesians; died 1968 in presumably in South Africa)