Sir H. Rider Haggard

MAB became a friend to the young Rider Haggard , and worked to promote his early writing. She mentions with respect many of the distinguished military and civil servants of the Crown whom she got...

Her daughter Ida Hector became H. Rider Haggard 's secretary.

SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...

At home Olivia was encouraged to love poetry, learned to read by the time she was four, and was later subjected to piano lessons which taught her nothing. As a teenager and thinking of herself...

In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN devoured every book she could get...