Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research.
10: 141
Sir H. Rider Haggard
Standard Name: Haggard, Sir H. Rider
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | MA
has provided many introductions and paratexts for the work of other writers in poetry and prose, including an afterword for Margaret Laurence
's A Jest of God, reprinted in the New Canadian Library... |
| Textual Production | Josephine Tey | This play was considerably less successful than Richard of Bordeaux, and ran for only a few weeks. |
| Textual Production | Mary Angela Dickens | MAD
wrote frequently for The Windsor Magazine, interviewing authors for it at the turn of the century. In a study of the magazine's issues of the early 1910s, Robert Scholes
argues that the presence... |
| Textual Production | Florence Dixie | When H. Rider Haggard
published his Beatrice, A Novel, he received a long letter from FD
criticising the book as sexist. Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray. 178-9 |
| Textual Production | L. T. Meade | She gave up her editorship only when other writing commitments and her growing children made it impossible to continue. During those six years she used to eat breakfast at half past seven, receive her first... |
| politics | Florence Dixie | According to Brian Roberts
, FDoriginated the scheme for providing seaside holiday camps for poor children. She opposed cruelty to animals, blood-sports (which she had once enjoyed), and vivisection. She supported Rationalism, dress reform... |
| Occupation | Marie Corelli | From 1886, when she published her first novel, A Romance of Two Worlds, onward, MC
produced books at great speed. She was an instant success, and throughout her life she sold approximately 100,000 books... |
| Literary responses | E. Nesbit | When EN
asked Bernard Shaw
to review the first Lays and Legends for To-Day, he responded with a pretend review contained in a letter, a masterpiece in faint praise: The author has a fair... |
| Literary responses | Flora Annie Steel | An early study of FAS
's writings was A Star of India by Daya Patwardhan
, complete with a bibliographical list of her works and investigation of her real-life sources. Powell, Violet. Flora Annie Steel: Novelist of India. Heinemann. 69 |
| Literary responses | Florence Dixie | Her most vociferous opponents now included John Robinson
, editor of the Natal Mercury (who chose to interpret her as a mere mouthpiece for Bishop Colenso
), and in time most of the British Tory... |
| Literary responses | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | In the TLSE. E. Mavrogordato
pronounced The Lost Worlda glorious story; he had enjoyed nothing of this kind so much, he wrote, since H. Rider Haggard
's She, 1887. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 562 (17 October 1912): 443 |
| Literary responses | Elspeth Huxley | British Book News considered that EH
had drawn to good effect on an intimate knowledge of African landscape, politics, and race issues and displayed great narrative skill, though a little lacking in psychological subtlety. British Book News. British Council. (1957): 451 |
| Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research. vol. 1 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Robins | ER
used her travels in Alaska as a basis for several short stories and adventure novels. One story, Monica's Village, parodies Rider Haggard
's popular adventure novel She. John, Angela V. Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952. Routledge. 131-2 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Olivia Manning |
Timeline
12 April 1877: The Transvaal in South Africa was annexed...
National or international item
12 April 1877
The Transvaal in South Africa was annexed for the UK when Sir Theophilus Shepstone
marched into it with twenty-five policemen and a Union Jack,
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press.
243
30 September 1885: H. Rider Haggard published his first successful...
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30 September 1885
H. Rider Haggard
published his first successful adventurenovel, King Solomon's Mines (which he said he wrote in six weeks to win a bet with his brother that he could equal Stevenson
's Treasure Island).
October 1886-January 1887: The Graphic serialised with illustrations...
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October 1886-January 1887
The Graphic serialised with illustrations H. Rider Haggard
's exotic imperialist (and racist and sexist) adventurenovelShe, which features a hitherto-immortal Queen ruling in the heart of Africa.
1887: The monthly Atalanta: Every Girl's Magazine...
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1887
The monthlyAtalanta: Every Girl's Magazine began publication.
By 16 July 1887: H. Rider Haggard published his novel Allan...
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By 16 July 1887
H. Rider Haggard
published his novelAllan Quartermain.
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...
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1920
The number of Miners' Institutes
(which included Miners' Libraries
) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund
.
Texts
Haggard, Sir H. Rider. “Introduction”. King Solomon’s Mines, edited by Dennis Butts, Oxford University Press, 1989.