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Rider Haggard after his return to England in 1881. Rider Haggard returned to Britain in 1881. At the time, England was increasingly beset by the social and cultural anxieties that marked the fin de siècle. [14] One of the most prominent concerns was the fear of political and racial decline, encapsulated in Max Nordau's Degeneration (1895).
Henry Rider Haggard, generally known as H. Rider Haggard or Rider Haggard, was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, the eighth of ten children, to William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. [3] His father was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 1817 to British parents. [4]
Ayesha, the Return of She is a gothic-fantasy novel by the English Victorian author H. Rider Haggard, published in 1905 as a sequel to his 1887 novel She.Chronologically, it is the final novel of the Ayesha and Allan Quatermain series.
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]
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. [1]
She and Allan is a novel by H. Rider Haggard, first published in 1921. It brought together his two most popular characters, Ayesha from his 1887 novel She (to which it serves as a prequel), and Allan Quatermain from his 1885 novel King Solomon's Mines. Umslopogaas from Nada the Lily (1892) also appears in the novel as a major character.
King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel [1] by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard.It tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain, searching for the missing brother of one of the party.
By default they are listed according to the fictional chronology from c. 2000 BCE to 1899, which happens to be the span of the She series. (Quatermain appears in one She story, the novel She and Allan.)