Sir H. Rider Haggard

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

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...

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...

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...

MC was a member of the Albemarle Club . She also belonged to the Society of Authors , and acted as a steward (along with over a hundred other luminaries including Walter Besant

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...

When H. Rider Haggard published his Beatrice, A Novel, he received a long letter from FD criticising the book as sexist.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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...

Sir Henry Morton Stanley was a hero to OM 's father, and therefore to her as well: her father 's influence on this book can been seen through the presence in it of Rider Haggard

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...