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Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), was a prolific writer of adventure novel
Adventure novel

The adventure novel is a genre of novel that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction....
s set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire
British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature
Victorian literature

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom and corresponds to the Victorian era. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the Romanticism period and the very different literature of the 20th century....
, continue to be popular and influential to this day.

Early years Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk
Bradenham, Norfolk

Bradenham is a village and civil parish, a conglomeration of East & West Bradenham, in the England county of Norfolk. It is situated some south-west of the town of East Dereham and west of the city of Norwich....
, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister
Barrister

A barrister is a lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions that employ a split profession in relation to legal representation. In split professions, the other type of lawyer is the solicitor....
, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet.






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For he was a merciful man, who loved not slaughter, although his fierce faith drove him from war to war.

The Brethren (1904), PROLOGUE

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

The Ancient Allan (1920), CHAPTER I, OLD FRIEND

It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.

Allan and the Holy Flower (1915), CHAPTER I, BROTHER JOHN

The great wheel of Fate rolls on like a Juggernaut, and crushes us all in turn, some soon, some late.

Allan Quatermain (1887), INTRODUCTION

We white people think that we know everything.

Child of Storm (1913), CHAPTER I, ALLAN QUATERMAIN HEARS OF MAMEENA

Out of the dark we came, into the dark we go. Like a storm-driven bird at night we fly out of the Nowhere; for a moment our wings are seen in the light of the fire, and, lo! we are gone again into the Nowhere.

King Solomon's Mines (1885), CHAPTER V, OUR MARCH INTO THE DESERT





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Sir Henry Rider Haggard KBE
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), was a prolific writer of adventure novel
Adventure novel

The adventure novel is a genre of novel that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction....
s set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire
British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
. His stories, situated at the lighter end of Victorian literature
Victorian literature

Victorian literature is the literature produced during the reign of Victoria of the United Kingdom and corresponds to the Victorian era. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the Romanticism period and the very different literature of the 20th century....
, continue to be popular and influential to this day.

Biography


Early years

Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk
Bradenham, Norfolk

Bradenham is a village and civil parish, a conglomeration of East & West Bradenham, in the England county of Norfolk. It is situated some south-west of the town of East Dereham and west of the city of Norwich....
, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister
Barrister

A barrister is a lawyer found in many common law jurisdictions that employ a split profession in relation to legal representation. In split professions, the other type of lawyer is the solicitor....
, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington
Garsington

Garsington is a village in Oxfordshire, a few miles to the south-east of the city of Oxford, England.The Village is home to around 3,000 people, and has a local shop newly opened in March 2008, where the old Post Office used to be....
 Rectory in Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire is a county in the South East England region, bordering on Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Warwickshire....
 to study under Reverend H. J. Graham, but unlike his older brothers who graduated from various public schools
Private school

Private schools, or independent schools, are schools not administered by local, state, or national government, which retain the right to select their student body and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students tuition rather than with public funds....
, he attended Ipswich Grammar School
Ipswich School

Ipswich School is a co-educational independent school situated in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was founded in its current form as The King's School, Ipswich by Thomas Wolsey in 1528....
. This was because his father, who perhaps regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much , could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private crammer in London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
 to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office,for which he never sat. During his two years in London he came into contact with people interested in the study of psychical phenomena.

South Africa, 1875-1882

Instead, Haggard's father sent him in 1875 to what is now South Africa
South Africa

The Republic of South Africa, also known by Official names of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa....
, in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer
Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer

Sir Henry Ernest Gascoyne Bulwer , the nephew of Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer, was a United Kingdom British Empire Administrator of the Government and diplomacy....
, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Natal
Colony of Natal

The Colony of Natal was a British colony in south-eastern Africa. It was proclaimed a British colony on May 4, 1843 after the British government had annexed the Boer Natalia Republic, and on 31 May1910 combined with three other colonies to form the Union of South Africa....
. In 1876 he was transferred to the staff of Sir Theophilus Shepstone, Special Commissioner for the Transvaal. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria
Pretoria

Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three Capital , serving as the Executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislature capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital....
 in April 1877 for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer
Boer

Boer is the Dutch language word for farmer which came to denote the descendants of the proto Afrikaans-speaking pastoralists of the eastern Cape frontier in Southern Africa during the 18th century as well as those who left the Cape Colony during the 19th century to settle in the Orange Free State, Transvaal and to a lesser extent Natal Pro...
 Republic of the Transvaal
Transvaal

File:Flag of Transvaal.svgFile:Transvaal map.pngFile:Spelterini Transvaal.jpgThe Transvaal is the name of an area of northern South Africa....
. Indeed, Haggard raised the Union flag
Union Flag

The Union Flag, also known as the Union Jack, is the national Flag of the United Kingdom. Historically, the flag was used throughout the former British Empire....
 and read out much of the proclamation
Proclamation

A proclamation is an official declaration....
 following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty.

At about that time, Haggard fell in love with Mary Elizabeth "Lilly" Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in Africa. In 1878 he became Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal, and wrote to his father informing him that he intended to return to England and marry her. His father forbade it until Haggard had made a career for himself, and by 1879 Jackson had married Frank Archer, a well-to-do banker. When Haggard eventually returned to England, he married a friend of his sister, (Mariana) Louisa Margitson in 1880, and the couple travelled to Africa together. They had a son named Jock (who died of measles
Measles

Measles is a infection of the respiratory system caused by a virus, specifically a paramyxovirus of the genus Morbillivirus. Morbilliviruses, like other paramyxoviruses, are enveloped, single-stranded, negative-sense RNA viruses....
 at age 10) and three daughters, Angela, Dorothy and Lilias. Lilias became an author, edited The Rabbit Skin Cap, and wrote a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left (published in 1951).

Haggard in England, 1882-1925

Moving back to England in 1882 (according to H.d.R. the return was in autumn 1881 and they had been living in Newcastle, Natal), the couple settled in Ditchingham
Ditchingham

Ditchingham is a village and civil parish in the England county of Norfolk. It is located across the River Waveney from Bungay, Suffolk, Suffolk near to The Broads National Park....
, Norfolk
Norfolk

Norfolk is a low-lying Counties of England in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and with Suffolk to the south....
, Louisa's ancestral home. Later they lived in Kessingland
Kessingland

Kessingland is a large village in the Waveney District in Suffolk, over 3 miles south of Lowestoft. It is of interest to archaeologists as Palaeolithic and Neolithic implements have been found here; the remains of an ancient forest lie buried on the seabed....
 and had connections with the church in Bungay, Suffolk
Bungay, Suffolk

Bungay is a small town in Suffolk , within The Broads National Park. It lies in the Waveney valley, about 7 km west of Beccles....
. Haggard turned to the study of law and was called to the bar in 1884. His practice of law was somewhat desultory, and much of his time was taken up by the writing of novels, which he saw as being more profitable. Rider Haggard lived at 69 Gunterstone Road in Hammersmith
Hammersmith

Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, approximately 5 miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
, from mid 1885 to circa April 1888. It was at this Hammersmith address that he completed King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian era adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party....
 (published September 1885). Heavily influenced by the larger-than-life adventurers he met in Colonial Africa (most notably Frederick Selous
Frederick Selous

Frederick Courteney Selous Distinguished Service Order was a United Kingdom List of explorers, British Army, hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in south and east of Africa....
 and Frederick Russell Burnham
Frederick Russell Burnham

Frederick Russell Burnham, Distinguished Service Order was an United States military scout and world traveling adventurer known for his service to the British Army in colonial Africa and for teaching Scoutcraft to Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, thus becoming one of the inspirations for the founding of the international Scou...
), the great mineral wealth discovered in Africa, and the ruins of ancient lost civilizations in Africa, such as Great Zimbabwe
Great Zimbabwe

The Great Zimbabwe, or "stone buildings", is the name given to stone ruins spread out over a 722 ha area within the modern-day country of Zimbabwe, which itself is named after the ruins....
, Haggard created his Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 in literature novel King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels....
 adventures. Three of his books, The Wizard (1896), Elissa; the Doom of Zimbabwe (1899), and Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu Idyll (1900), are dedicated to Burnham's daughter, Nada, the first white child
First white child

The birth of the first white child was a celebrated occasion across many parts of the New World. Such births are a matter of pride for many townships, and they are commemorated with plaques and monuments at the location of the event....
 born in Bulawayo
Bulawayo

Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, after the capital Harare, with a population of 676,000 , now estimated as 707,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439km south-west of Harare , and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland....
; she had been named after Haggard's 1892 book Nada the Lily
Nada the Lily

Nada the Lily is an historical novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard, written in 1892 in literature. It is said to be inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa ....
.

Aid for Lilly Archer

Years later, when Haggard was a successful novelist, he was contacted by his former love, Lilly Archer, née Jackson. She had been deserted by her husband, who had embezzled funds entrusted to him and fled, bankrupt, to Africa. Lilly was penniless, and so Haggard installed her and her sons in a house and saw to the children's education. Lilly eventually followed her husband to Africa, where he infected her with syphilis before dying of it himself. Lilly returned to England in late 1907, where Haggard again supported her until her death on 22 April, 1909. These details were not generally known until the publication of Haggard's 1983 biography by D. S. Higgins.

Public affairs and honours

Haggard was heavily involved in reforming agriculture and was a member of many commissions on land use and related affairs, work that involved several trips to the Colonies and Dominions
British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, Crown colony, protectorates, League of Nations mandate, and other Dependent territory ruled or administered by the United Kingdom , that had originated with the overseas colonies and trading posts established by England in the late 16th and early 17th centuries....
. He was made a Knight Bachelor
Knight Bachelor

The rank of Knight Bachelor is a part of the British honours system. It is the rank of a man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organised Chivalric order....
 in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom....
 in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for parliament as a candidate for the Conservative Party
Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
 in the 1895 summer election, losing by only 198 votes.

Writing career

Haggard is most famous as the author of the novels King Solomon's Mines
King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian era adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party....
 and its sequel Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 in literature novel King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels....
, and She
She (novel)

She: A History of Adventure is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, and has remained in print to the present day....
 and its sequel Ayesha
Ayesha (novel)

Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic novel by the popular Victorian era author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She ....
, swashbuckling adventure novel
Adventure novel

The adventure novel is a genre of novel that has adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger, as its main theme. Adventure has been a common theme since the earliest days of written fiction....
s set in the context of the Scramble for Africa
Scramble for Africa

The Scramble for Africa, also known as the Race for Africa, was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism period, between the 1880s and the World War I in 1914....
 (the action of Ayesha however happens in Tibet). He is also remembered for Nada the Lily
Nada the Lily

Nada the Lily is an historical novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard, written in 1892 in literature. It is said to be inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa ....
 (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking
Viking

A Viking is one of the Norsemen explorers, warriors, merchants, and Piracy who raided and colonized wide areas of Europe from the late eighth to the early eleventh century....
 romance, Eric Brighteyes
Eric Brighteyes

The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland....
.

While his novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism
Colonialism

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over Territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colony in which Indigenous people populations are direct rule, Population transfers, or Genocide....
, they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically, though not invariably, European. Notable examples are the heroic Zulu warrior Umslopagas and Ignosi, the rightful king of Kukuanaland, in King Solomon's Mines. Having developed an intense mutual friendship with the three Englishmen who help him regain his throne, he accepts their advice and abolishes witch-hunts and arbitrary capital punishment
Capital punishment

Capital punishment, the death penalty or execution, is the killing of a person by procedural law for Punishment#Retribution and Punishment#Incapacitation....
. Three of his novels are written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang was a prolific Scotland man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the folkloristics of folklore and fairy tales....
 who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.

Haggard also wrote about agricultural and social reform, in part inspired by his experiences in Africa, but also based on what he saw in Europe. At the end of his life he was a staunch opponent of Bolshevism, a position he shared with his friend Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English author and poet. Born in Mumbai, British India , he is best known for his works of fiction The Jungle Book , Kim , many short stories, including The Man Who Would Be King ; and his poems, including Mandalay , Gunga Din , and If? ....
. The two had bonded upon Kipling's arrival at London in 1889 largely on the strength of their shared opinions, and the two remained lifelong friends.

Reputation and legacy

Haggard's stories are still widely read today. Ayesha, the female protagonist
Protagonist

A protagonist is the main Character of a drama or Narrative. The word "protagonist" derives from the Greek language p??ta????st?? , "one who plays the first part, chief actor." In the theatre of Ancient Greece, three actors played all of the main dramatic roles in a tragedy; the leading role was played by the protagonist, while the othe...
 of She, has been cited as a prototype
Prototype

A prototype is an original type, form, or instance of something serving as a typical example, basis, or standard for other things of the same category....
 by psychoanalysts as different as Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
 (in The Interpretation of Dreams
The Interpretation of Dreams

The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by Sigmund Freud. The first edition was first published in German language in November 1899 as Die Traumdeutung ....
) and Carl Jung
Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of Analytical psychology. Jung's approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counterculture movements across the globe....
. Her epithet
Epithet

An epithet is a descriptive word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing, which has become a fixed formula....
 "She Who Must Be Obeyed" is used by British author John Mortimer
John Mortimer

Sir John Clifford Mortimer, Order of the British Empire, Queen's Counsel was an English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author....
 in his Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a United Kingdom television series created and written by United Kingdom writer and barrister John Mortimer, Queen's Counsel and starring Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients....
 series as the private name the lead character, a barrister with some skill in court, uses for his wife, Hilda, before whom he trembles at home. Haggard's Lost World genre
Lost World (genre)

The Lost World literary genre is a fantasy or science fiction genre that involves the discovery of a new world out of time, place, or both. It began as a subgenre of the late-Victorian imperial romance and remains popular to this day....
 influenced the popular American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Edgar Rice Burroughs was an United States author, best known for his creation of the jungle hero Tarzan and the heroic Mars adventurer John Carter , although he produced works in many genres....
 as well as other American pulp writers such as Robert E. Howard
Robert E. Howard

This article is about writer Robert E. Howard. For the Medal of Honor recipient, try Robert L. Howard.Robert Ervin Howard was an United States author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres....
, Talbot Mundy
Talbot Mundy

Talbot Mundy was an English writer. He also wrote under the pseudonym Walter Galt.Born in London, at age 16 he ran away from home and began an odyssey in India, Africa, and other parts of the Near and Far East....
 and Abraham Merritt . Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain

Allan Quatermain is a fictional character, the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 in literature novel King Solomon's Mines and its various sequels and prequels....
, the hero of King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, has influenced the American film character Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones

Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is a fictional character adventurer, soldier, professor of archaeology, and the main protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise....
, featured in the films Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a action film-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford....
, Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a story co-written by executive producer George Lucas....
 ; Quatermain has gained recent popularity thanks to being a main character in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Haggard was praised in 1965 by Roger Lancelyn Green
Roger Lancelyn Green

Roger Lancelyn Green was a British biographer and children's writer. He was an Oxford academic who formed part of the Inklings literary discussion group along with C.S....
, one of the Oxford
Oxford

Oxford is a City status in the United Kingdom, and the county town of Oxfordshire, in South East England. It has a population of 151,000. The rivers River Cherwell and River Thames run through Oxford and meet south of the city centre....
 Inklings
Inklings

The Inklings was an informal literature discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949....
, as a writer of a consistently high level of "literary skill or sheer imaginative power" and a co-originator with Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson , was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and Travel writing. Stevenson was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Vladimir Nabokov, J....
 of the Age of the Story Tellers.

Chronology of works

  • The Witch's Head (1884)
  • King Solomon's Mines
    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian era adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party....
     (1885); ; Public domain
    Public domain

    File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
     Audiobook at
  • She
    She (novel)

    She: A History of Adventure is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, and has remained in print to the present day....
     (1887);
  • My Fellow Laborer and the Wreck of the Copeland (1888)
  • Cleopatra (1889);
  • The World's Desire
    The World's Desire

    The World's Desire is a classic fantasy novel written by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang, first published in 1890. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fortieth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in January, 1972....
     (1890); co-written with Andrew Lang
    Andrew Lang

    Andrew Lang was a prolific Scotland man of letters. He was a poet, novelist, and literary critic, and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the folkloristics of folklore and fairy tales....
     
  • Eric Brighteyes
    Eric Brighteyes

    The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland....
     (1891);
  • Nada the Lily
    Nada the Lily

    Nada the Lily is an historical novel by English writer H. Rider Haggard, written in 1892 in literature. It is said to be inspired by Haggard's time in South Africa ....
     (1892);
  • Montezuma's Daughter
    Montezuma's Daughter

    Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1893, was a novel written by the Victorian literature adventure writer H. Rider Haggard.Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery....
     (1893);
  • The People of the Mist
    The People of the Mist

    The People of the Mist is a classic lost city fantasy novel written by H. Rider Haggard. It was first published serially in the magazine Tit-Bits Weekly from December, 1893 through August, 1894; the first book edition was published in London by Longmans in October, 1894....
     (1894);
  • Joan Haste (1895)
  • Heart of the World (1895)
  • Church and State (1895)
  • A Farmer's Year (1899)
  • The Last Boer War (1899)
  • The Spring of Lion (1899)
  • The New South Africa (1900)
  • A Winter Pilgrimage (1901)
  • Rural England (1902)
  • The Poor and the Land (1905)
  • Ayesha: The Return of She
    Ayesha (novel)

    Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic novel by the popular Victorian era author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She ....
     (1905); ; Public domain
    Public domain

    File:PD-icon.svgThe public domain is a range of abstract materials?commonly referred to as intellectual property?which are not owned or controlled by anyone....
     Audiobook at
  • A Gardener's Year (1905)
  • Report of Salvation Army Colonies (1905)
  • The Way of the Spirit (1906)
  • Rural Denmark (1911)
  • A call to Arms (1914)
  • After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-Service Men (1916)
  • She and Allan
    She and Allan

    'She and Allan' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She , and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines....
     (1921);
  • Wisdom's Daughter (1923)
  • Heu-Heu (1924)
  • Queen of the Dawn (1925)
  • The Days of my Life: An autobiography of Sir H. Rider Haggard (1926)
  • Treasure of the Lake (1926)
  • Allan and the Ice Gods (1927)
  • Mary of Marion Isle (1929)
  • Belshazzar (1930)


Publication dates unknown

Allan Quatermain series

  • King Solomon's Mines
    King Solomon's Mines

    King Solomon's Mines is a popular novel by the Victorian era adventure writer and fabulist, Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a quest into an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the missing brother of one of the party....
    ;
  • Allan's Wife & Other Tales;
  • She and Allan
    She and Allan

    'She and Allan' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She , and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines....
    ;
  • Heu-heu: or The Monster
  • The Treasure of the Lake
  • Allan and the Ice-gods
  • Magapa the Buck
  • A Tale Of Three lions
  • Hunter Quatermain's Story
  • Long Odds


Ayesha series

  • She
    She (novel)

    She: A History of Adventure is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first serialized in The Graphic from October 1886 to January 1887. In reprints it was extraordinarily popular in its time, and has remained in print to the present day....
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  • Ayesha: The Return of She
    Ayesha (novel)

    Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic novel by the popular Victorian era author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905, as a sequel to his far more popular and well known novel, She ....
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  • She and Allan
    She and Allan

    'She and Allan' is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from She , and Allan Quatermain from King Solomon's Mines....
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  • Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed


See also

  • Mythopoeia (genre)
  • Louis Henri Boussenard
    Louis Henri Boussenard

    Louis Henri Boussenard was a French author of adventure novels, dubbed the French Rider Haggard during his lifetime but better known today in Eastern Europe than in Francophone countries....
  • Alexandre Dumas, père
    Alexandre Dumas, père

    Alexandre Dumas, p?re , born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors in the world....
  • Karl May
  • Baroness Orczy
    Baroness Orczy

    Baroness Emma Orczy was a United Kingdom novelist, playwright and artist of Hungary noble origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the The Scarlet Pimpernel....
  • Emilio Salgari
    Emilio Salgari

    Emilio Salgari was an Italians writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction in Italy.For over a century his novels were mandatory reading for generations of youth eager for exotic adventures....
  • Samuel Shellabarger
    Samuel Shellabarger

    Samuel Shellabarger was an American educator and author of both scholarly works and best-selling historical novels. He was born in Washington, D.C., on 18 May 1888, but his parents both died while he was a baby....
  • Lawrence Schoonover
    Lawrence Schoonover

    Lawrence Schoonover was an American novelist.Born in Anamosa, Iowa, Schoonover attended the University of Wisconsin, then worked in advertising before becoming a novelist....
  • Jules Verne
    Jules Verne

    Jules Gabriel Verne was a France author who helped pioneer the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth , From the Earth to the Moon , Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , and Around the World in Eighty Days ....
    , author of many early works of science fiction
    Science fiction

    Science fiction is a broad genre of fiction that often involves speculations based on current or future science or technology. Science fiction is found in books, art, television, films, games, theatre, and other media....
  • Frank Yerby
    Frank Yerby

    Frank Garvin Yerby was an African American List of historical novelists. He is best known as the first African American to write a best-selling novel and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation....
  • A. E. W. Mason
    A. E. W. Mason

    Alfred Edward Woodley Mason was a United Kingdom author and politician. He is best remembered for his 1902 novel The Four Feathers....
  • P. C. Wren
    P. C. Wren

    Percival Christopher Wren was a British writer, mostly of adventure novel. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal....
  • Anthony Hope
    Anthony Hope

    Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope , was an English people novelist and playwright. Although he was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels, he is remembered best for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau ....
    , author of adventure novels such as The Prisoner of Zenda
    The Prisoner of Zenda

    The Prisoner of Zenda is an adventure novel by Anthony Hope, 1894 in literature. The king of the fictional country of Ruritania is abducted on the eve of his coronation, and the protagonist, an English gentleman on holiday who fortuitously resembles the monarch, is persuaded to act as his political decoy in an attempt to save the situat...


External links

  • H. Rider Haggard's , Escape, CBS radio, 1948
  • The Books of H. Rider Haggard: A Chronological Survey