qtd. in
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998.
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Sir H. Rider Haggard
Standard Name: Haggard, Sir H. Rider
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Elma Napier | 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... |
| Education | Stella Gibbons | SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures |
| Education | Olivia Manning | 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Mrs Alexander | Her daughter Ida Hector
became H. Rider Haggard
's secretary. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Anne Barker | 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Olivia Manning | |
| 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, 1995. 131-2 |
| Leisure and Society | May Crommelin | MC
was a member of the Albemarle Club
. Who Was Who in Literature, 1906-1934. Gale Research, 1979, 2 vols. vol. 1 |
| 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 | 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 | 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, 1981. 69 |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
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, 2009.
243
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 746
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
243-4
30 September 1885: H. Rider Haggard published his first successful...
Writing climate item
30 September 1885
H. Rider Haggard
published his first successful adventure novel, 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...
Writing climate item
October 1886-January 1887
The Graphic serialised with illustrations H. Rider Haggard
's exotic imperialist (and racist and sexist) adventure novel She, which features a hitherto-immortal Queen ruling in the heart of Africa.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Rundell, Katherine. “Fashionable Gore”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 7, 3 Apr. 2014, pp. 33-4. 33
1887: The monthly Atalanta: Every Girl's Magazine...
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1887
The monthly Atalanta: Every Girl's Magazine began publication.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
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By 16 July 1887: H. Rider Haggard published his novel Allan...
Writing climate item
By 16 July 1887
H. Rider Haggard
published his novel Allan Quartermain.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3116 (1887): 80
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.
Haggard, Sir H. Rider. “Introduction”. King Solomon’s Mines, edited by Dennis Butts, Oxford University Press, 1989.
xix, xxviii
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...
Writing climate item
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
.
Collini, Stefan. “The Cookson Story”. London Review of Books, 13 Dec. 2001, pp. 33-5.
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Texts
Haggard, Sir H. Rider. “Introduction”. King Solomon’s Mines, edited by Dennis Butts, Oxford University Press, 1989.