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H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925)
Haggard, Sir Henry Rider. An English novelist; born at Bradenham, Norfolk, June 22, 1856; died in 1925. His long residence in South Africa afforded him much of the material for his fictions. ‘King Solomon’s Mines’ (1885) and ‘Allan Quatermain’ (1887) were not particularly successful; but ‘She,’ an extravaganza of adventure and supernaturalism, made his name really celebrated. His later works include ‘Mr. Meeson’s Will’; ‘Cleopatra’; ‘The World’s Desire’; ‘Stella Fregelius’; ‘The Brethren’; etc.