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HENRY RIDER HAGGARD (1856– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 816 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY RIDER See also:HAGGARD (1856– )  , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at Bradenham See also:Hall, See also:Norfolk, on the 22nd of See also:June 1856 . When he was nineteen he went to See also:South See also:Africa as secretary to See also:Sir See also:Henry Bulwer, See also:governor of See also:Natal . At the See also:time of the first See also:annexation of the See also:Transvaal (1877), he was on the See also:staff of the See also:special See also:commissioner, Sir See also:Theophilus See also:Shepstone; and he subsequently became a See also:master of the high See also:court of the Transvaal . He married in 1879 a Norfolk heiress, See also:Miss Margitson, but returned to the Transvaal in time to See also:witness its surrender to the Boers and the overthrow of the policy of his former See also:chief . He returned to See also:England and read for the See also:bar, but soon took to See also:literary See also:work; he published See also:Cetywayo and his See also:White Neighbours (1882), written in See also:defence of Sir T . Shepstone's policy . This was followed by the novels See also:Dawn (1884), The See also:Witch's See also:Head (1885), which contains an See also:account of the See also:British defeat at See also:Isandhlwana; and in 1886 See also:King See also:Solomon's Mines, suggested by the See also:Zimbabwe ruins, which first made him popular . She (1887), another fantastic See also:African See also:story, was also very successful, a sequel, Ayesha, or the Return of She, being published in 1905 . The See also:scene of Jess (1887) and of See also:Allan Quatermain (1888) was also laid in Africa . In 1895 he unsuccessfully contested the See also:East Norfolk See also:parliamentary See also:division in the Unionist See also:interest; he showed See also:great interest in rural and agricultural questions, being a See also:practical gardener and See also:farmer on his See also:estate in Norfolk . In his Rural England (2 vols., 1902) he exposed the evils of depopulation in See also:country districts . In 1505 he was commissioned by the colonial See also:office to inquire into the Salvation See also:Army settlements at Fort Romie, S .

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California, and Fort Amity, See also:Colorado, with a view to the See also:establishment of similar colonies in South Africa . His See also:report on the subject was first published as a See also:blue See also:book, and afterwards, in an enlarged See also:form, as The Poor and the See also:Land (1905), with suggestions for a See also:scheme of See also:national land See also:settlement in Great See also:Britain itself . His other hooks include Maiwa's Revenge (1888), Mr Meeson's Will (1888), See also:Colonel See also:Quaritch, V.C . (1888), See also:Cleopatra (1889), See also:Eric Brighteyes (1891), The See also:World's See also:Desire (1890), a See also:romance of See also:Helen of See also:Troy, written with Mr See also:Andrew See also:Lang; Nada the See also:Lily (1892), Montezuma's Daughter (1894), The See also:People of the Mist (1894), See also:Joan Haste (1895), See also:Heart of the World (1896), Dr Therne (1898), A Farmer's See also:Year (1899), The New South Africa (1900), Lysbeth, A See also:Tale of the Dutch (1901), Stella Fregelius (1903), A Gardener's Year (1905), A Farmer's Year (1899, revised ed., 1906), The Way of the Spirit (1906) .

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