H rider haggard biography

Author: H. Rider Haggard

Author: H. Rider Haggard (–)

Alternate Name(s): Henry Rider Haggard (legal name)

Biography: Novelist. Brother of novelists Andrew Charles Parker Haggard and Edward Arthur Haggard. See entry in DNB or Sutherland.

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References: DNB; NCBEL; Sutherland; D.E. Whatmore, H. Rider Haggard: A Bibliography (Mansell, )

Fiction Titles:

1. Dawn.  3 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett,
2. The Witch's Head.  3 vol.  London: Hurst and Blackett,
3. King Solomon's Mines.  1 vol.  London: Cassell,
4. She: A History of Adventure.  1 vol.  London: Longman,
5. Jess.  1 vol.  London: Smith, Elder,
6. Allan Quatermain: Being an Account of his Further Adventures.  1 vol.  London: Longman,
7. Colonel Quaritch V.C.: A Tale of Country Life.  3 vol.  London: Longman,
8. Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand.  1 vol.  London: Longman,
9. Mr. Meeson's Will.  1 vol.  London: Spencer Blackett,
10. Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis, the Royal Egyptian.  1 vol.  London: Longm

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    H. Rider Haggard

    Henry Rider Haggard (–)^[1] was an Englishwriter. He is best known for his adventurenovels. His novels were notable for their unusual invention and stories that kept people interested. His best novels were very popular in his lifetime. They made the genre of adventure fiction popular again.^[2] Haggard also wrote books about farming and emigration.

    Haggard lived in South Africa for six years when he was a young man. Many of his novels were set in Africa, including King Solomon's Mines (), Allan Quatermain () and She ().^[3]

    In , Haggard was knighted for his services to the British Empire.^[1] Haggard's autobiography, The Days of My Life, was published in after he died.^[4] Morton Cohen's biography of Haggard was published in

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    1. ↑ Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, , eds. John Powell; Derek W. Blakeley; Tessa Powell (Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, ), p.
    2. ↑Timothy Scott Hayes, Stories of Things Remote: (Re)placing the Self in 19th-century Adventure Fiction (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ), p. 30
    3. ↑The Oxford Companion to English Literature, Seventh edition, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxfor
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    Entry updated 13 January Tagged: Author.

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