Words in Season is a selection of Schreiner's uncollected writings on key South African issues, supported by her own autobiographical pieces. It includes The Political Situation, written in collaboration with her husband in 1895; her Words in Season produced on the eve of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899; and her Closer Union booklet of 1908 which defines her vision of a non-racial, non-sexist South Africa of the future.

Perhaps best remembered for The Story of an African Farm, Schreiner's combative journalism and subsequent role as a spokesperson for progressive causes ultimately resulted in her being posthumously awarded South Africa's highest honour, the Medal of Ikhamanga in Gold, "for her exceptional contribution to literature and her commitment to the struggle for human rights and democracy."