Henry Rider Haggard, 1856-1925
Biographical note
Haggard is most famous as the author of the novels King Solomon's Mines and its sequel Allan Quatermain, and She and its sequel Ayesha, swashbuckling adventure novels set in the context of the Scramble for Africa (the action of Ayesha however happens in Tibet). He is also remembered for Nada the Lily (a tale of adventure among the Zulus) and the epic Viking romance, Eric Brighteyes.
While his novels portray many of the stereotypes associated with colonialism, they are unusual for the degree of sympathy with which the native populations are portrayed. Africans often play heroic roles in the novels, although the protagonists are typically, though not invariably, European.
Three of his novels were written in collaboration with his friend Andrew Lang who shared his interest in the spiritual realm and paranormal phenomena.
Works
Allan Quatermain series
- King Solomon's Mines [1885]
- Hunter Quatermain's Story [1885]
- Long Odds [1886]
- Allan Quatermain [1887]
- Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand [1888]
- Allan's Wife & other tales [1889]
- Marie : An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain [1912]
- Child of Storm [1913]
- Allan and the Holy Flower [1915]
- The Ivory Child [1916]
- Finished [1917]
- The Ancient Allan [1920]
- Heu-heu: or The Monster [1924]
- The Treasure of the Lake [1926]
- Allan and the Ice Gods [1927]
- Magapa the Buck
- The Tale of Three Lions [1887]
Ayesha series
- She [1887]
- Ayesha: The Return of She [1905]
- She and Allan [1921]
- Wisdom's Daughter: The Life and Love Story of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed [1923]
Other Romances
- Cleopatra [1889]
- The World's Desire / with Andrew Lang [1890]
- Eric Brighteyes [1891]
- Nada the Lily [1892]
- Montezuma's Daughter / with Andrew Lang [1893]
- The People of the Mist [1894]
- Heart of the World [1895]
- The Wizard [1896]
- Swallow : a tale of the great trek [1898]
- The Spring of Lion [1899]
- Elissa; the doom of Zimbabwe [1899]
- Black Heart and White Heart; a Zulu idyll [1900]
- Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch [1901]
- Pearl-Maiden [1903]
- The Brethren [1904]
- Benita, an African romance [1906]
- Fair Margaret [1907]
- The Ghost Kings [1908]
- A Yellow God : an Idol of Africa [1908]
- The Lady of Blossholme [1909]
- Morning Star [1910]
- Queen Sheba's Ring [1910]
- Red Eve [1911]
- The Mahatma and the Hare [1911]
- The Wanderer's Necklace [1914]
- A call to Arms [1914]
- Moon of Israel [1918]
- When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot [1919]
- Smith and the Pharaohs, and other tales [1920]
- The Virgin of the Sun [1922]
- Queen of the Dawn [1925]
- Belshazzar [1930]
Contemporary Fiction
- Dawn [1884]
- The Witch's Head [1884]
- Jess [1887]
- Mr. Meeson's Will [1888]
- Colonel Quaritch, V.C. : A Tale of Country Life [1888]
- Beatrice [1890]
- Joan Haste [1895]
- Doctor Therne [1898]
- Stella Fregelius ; co-written with Andrew Lang [1904]
- The Way of the Spirit [1906]
- Love Eternal [1918]
- Mary of Marion Isle [1929]
Non-Fiction
- Cetywayo and his White Neighbours; Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal [1882]
- My Fellow Laborer and the Wreck of the Copeland [1888]
- Church and State [1895]
- A Farmer's Year [1899]
- The Last Boer War [1899]
- The New South Africa [1900]
- A Winter Pilgrimage [1901]
- Rural England [1902]
- The Poor and the Land [1905]
- A Gardener's Year [1905]
- Report of Salvation Army Colonies [1905]
- Regeneration: an account of the social work of the Salvation Army [1910]
- Rural Denmark [1911]
- After the War Settlement and Employment of Ex-Service Men [1916]
- The Days of my Life: An autobiography of Sir H. Rider Haggard [1926]
