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Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis is an adventure novel written by English author H. Rider Haggard and first printed in 1889 by Longmans. Cleopatra mixes historical action with supernatural events, and could be described as a historical fantasy novel.
In 1925, his daughter Lilias commissioned a memorial window for Ditchingham Church, in his honour, from James Powell and Sons. [46] The design features the Pyramids, his farm in Africa, and Bungay as seen from the Vineyard Hills near his home. [46] The Rider Haggard Society was founded in 1985. It publishes the Haggard Journal three times a ...
H. Rider Haggard, KBE (/ ˈ h æ ɡ ər d /; 1856–1925) was a British writer, largely of adventure fiction, but also of non-fiction.The eighth child of a Norfolk barrister and squire, [1] through family connections he gained employment with Sir Henry Bulwer during the latter's service as lieutenant-governor of Natal, South Africa. [2]
Kristiana Gregory: The Royal Diaries: Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile, Egypt, 57 B.C. Henry Gréville: Cléopâtre (1886) H. Rider Haggard: Cleopatra: Being an Account of the Fall and Vengeance of Harmachis; E. E. Y. Hales: Chariot of Fire (1977 Fantasy novel) (sent to Hell after her death, Cleopatra plans a revolution against Satan)
the lead character in novels by H. Rider Haggard, and film adaptations . She: A History of Adventure, 1886; Ayesha, 1905; Wisdom's Daughter, 1923; She; She; She; Hilda Rumpole, the wife of Horace Rumpole of British TV series Rumpole of the Bailey 1978–1992
Christina Ricci's 2-Year-Old Daughter Cleopatra Is Trick-or-Treating for the First Time This Year: 'Very Excited' (Exclusive) Hannah Sacks, Valerie Mesa October 29, 2024 at 10:44 AM
First edition (publ. Longman & Co.) Montezuma's Daughter, first published in 1892, is a novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. [1] Narrated in the first person by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman whose adventures include having his mother murdered by his Spanish cousin Juan de Garcia, a brush with the Spanish Inquisition, shipwreck, and slavery.
According to Haggard's daughter Lilias, the phrase "She-who-must-be-obeyed" originated from his childhood and "the particularly hideous aspect" of one rag-doll: "This doll was something of a fetish, and Rider, as a small child, was terrified of her, a fact soon discovered by an unscrupulous nurse who made full use of it to frighten him into ...