KZN Literary Tourism project leader Prof Lindy Stiebel has recently edited a book on Rider Haggard for Pickering & Chatto’s highly successful Lives of Victorian Literary Figures. This edition focuses on three hugely popular late-Victorian novelists. Joseph Conrad (1875–1924), Henry Rider Haggard (1856–1925) and Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) engaged with different aspects of the rapidly-expanding British Empire. Polish-born Conrad joined the merchant navy and his most famous work, Heart of Darkness (1902) draws on his own experiences in the Congo. Anglo-Indian Kipling’s poetry, short stories and children’s writing engage with the colonial project in India. Haggard’s gripping stories were inspired by African exploration and land-grab by European colonial powers at the end of the nineteenth century.
Carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these iconic writers were viewed by their contemporaries.
The edition benefits from a general introduction, volume introductions, headnotes, endnotes and a consolidated index. It will be vital to those studying Nineteenth-Century Studies, Twentieth Century Studies, Literature and Children’s Literature.
- Includes transcriptions of unpublished material from British and Irish archives
- Rare and difficult-to-access material includes international newspaper commentary, pamphlets, private letters, memoirs, obituaries and eulogies
- Full editorial apparatus includes a substantial general introduction, introductions to each volume, bibliographies, chronologies, headnotes, endnotes and a general index in the final volume
- Each facsimile page is digitally cleaned and enhanced, significantly improving on the quality and legibility of the original
Volume 2: Henry Rider Haggard
Editor: Lindy Stiebel
Lilias Haggard, The Cloak that I Left, excerpts; Ella Haggard, ‘To My Son Rider (on leaving home July 1875)’, in P. B. Ellis, H. Rider Haggard: a Voice from the Infinite; Theophilius Shepstone, letter to Sir Henry Bulwer, 20 March 1877; Theophilius Shepstone, letter to Sir Henry Bulwer, 4 April 1877; Theophilius Shepstone, letter to Rider Haggard, 13 July 1892; John Kotzé, Biographical Memoirs and Reminiscences, excerpts; ‘The Foolishness of Rider Haggard’, (Krugersdorp) Sentinel; Preface to the second edition of The Story of an African Farm; Olive Schreiner, The Letters of Olive Schreiner 1876–1920, excerpt; Jehu Junior, ‘Men of the Day. No. CCLXXVI Mr Henry Rider Haggard’, Vanity Fair; Harry How, ‘Illustrated Interviews No. VII Mr H Rider Haggard’, Strand Magazine; Empress Frederick, Letter to William Haggard, 13 December 1889; Parodies: King Solomon’s Mines and She; Hyder Ragged [Sir H Charles Biron], Map from King Solomon’s Wives; or The Phantom Mines; J. M. Barrie ‘An Interview with “She”’, St James Gazette; Letter, ‘She’, St James Gazette; ‘Who is She and Where Did She Come From?’, Pall Mall Gazette; ‘The Song of “Jess” and Who Wrote It’, Pall Mall Gazette; Correspondence, Pall Mall Gazette; William Haggard, Pall Mall Gazette; ‘The Ethics of Plagiarism, Pall Mall Gazette; Andrew Lang ‘The Ethics of Plagiarism’, Pall Mall Gazette; Alfred Haggard ‘The Strange Case of Tom Moore and Mr Rider Haggard’ Pall Mall Gazette; ‘The Song of “Jess” and How She Came by it’, Pall Mall Gazette; Hon. George Curzon, unpublished letter sent to Pall Mall Gazette, excerpt ; ‘More Plagiarism’, St James’s Gazette; Andrew Haggard ‘Mr Rider Haggard in South Africa’, Pall Mall Gazette; James Runciman ‘King Plagiarism and His Court’, Fortnightly Review; J. K. Bangs, ‘Concerning Mr Haggard’, Life; Idle Idyller, ‘The Impossible She’, Life ; ‘Book-Talk’, Lipincott’s Monthly Magazine ; William Walsh ‘Books and Literature. The Reviewer’, Illustrated American; ‘General Gossip of Authors and Writers – Rider Haggard in Reminiscent Mood’, Current Literature; Ellis Robb, Letter to Rider Haggard, 5 February 1906; Robert Louis Stevenson, ‘The World’s Desire 1890’, in H. R. Haggard The Days of My Life, ed. C. J. Longman; Letter to Rider Haggard; Rudyard Kipling, Letter to Andrew Lang, 26 October 1889; Roger Lancelyn Green, Andrew Lang, A Critical Biography; Review: The World’s Desire, The Times; J. M. Barrie, Review of The World’s Desire, British Weekly; Andrew Lang to Rider Haggard, three letters 27 December 1903; 29 December 1903 and 2 January 1904; Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself ; Letter to Rider Haggard, 20 October 1895 ; ‘Mr Rudyard Kipling at the Anglo-African Writers’ Club: his views on South Africa’, African Review ; Letter to Rider Haggard, 22 December 1902; Plot outline for The Ghost Kings; Letter to Rider Haggard, 28 May 1906; Rudyard Kipling, sketch of Murgh, dated 5 October 1908 for Red Eve; GG ‘Way of the World’, Daily Herald, 4 March 1920; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 11–13 April 1925; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, May 1891; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 10 March 1902; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 21 December 1904; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 21 November 1911; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 20 August 1913; Review Jess (play), ‘Adelphi Theatre’; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 31 May 1910; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Rider Haggard, 8 September 1910; Review ‘Mameena’ Daily Telegraph; Review ‘Mameena’, Athenaeum; Oscar Asche, Oscar Asche: His Life, excerpt; ‘“King Solomon’s Mines”’ in London’; Letter to Rider Haggard, 15 October 1906; Theodore Roosevelt, ‘Rider Haggard and the Salvation Army’, Outlook; Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Rider Haggard, 28 June 1912; Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Rider Haggard, 14 March 1917; Robert Baden-Powell, letter to Rider Haggard, 23 October 1911; Robert Baden-Powell, letter to Rider Haggard, 9 October 1923; Ida Hector, letter to William Horton, 27 January 1911; Ida Hector, letter to William Horton 30 March 1911; Ida Hector, letter to William Horton 9 April 1911; Ida Hector, letter to William Horton, 11 April 1911; Ida Hector, letter to William Horton, 23 November 1911; Rudyard Kipling, letter to Ida Hector, 13 May 1925; Sol Cohen, two letters to Rider Haggard, 6 April 1908 and 9 April 1908; C. H. Grimshaw, letter to Rider Haggard, 14 March 1910; Annie Kenney, Suffragette, Letter to Rider Haggard, 17 August 1915; ‘Sir Rider Haggard’s Return to Natal’, Natal Witness; ‘Saved His Master’s Life’, Natal Witness; ‘Sir Rider Haggard’s Return’, Transvaal Leader; Report on Union Club Dinner speech, ‘Haggard Sounds Grave Warning’; Sir Harry Wilson, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 11 December 1915; Lord D’Abernon, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 22 December 1915; Sir Harry Wilson, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 31 December 1915; John X. Merriman, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 26 February 1916; Sir Harry Wilson, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 30 March 1916; HM Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, Letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 29 April 1916; Sir Harry Wilson, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 4 May 1916; Sir Harry Wilson, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 29 June 1916; Sir Harry Wilson, letter to Sir Rider Haggard, 4 October 1916; ‘Sir Rider Haggard’, The Times; ‘Sir Rider Haggard’ The Times; Edmund Gosse, letter to Lady Haggard; ‘Wills and Bequests. Sir Rider Haggard’s Autobiography’, The Times; Charles Longman, Letter to Lady Haggard 9 November 1925; Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams (trans. James Strachey), excerpt; Edward Shanks, Second Essays on Literature, excerpt; Amy Cruse, After the Victorians, excerpt; C. S. Lewis, Rehabilitations and Other Essays, excerpt; M. Elwin ‘Our Boyhood’s Favourite: Rider Haggard’, in Old Gods Falling, excerpts; Henry Miller, The Books in My Life, excerpts; Sir Theophilus Shepstone and his Staff; Cartoon by ‘Spy’, Vanity Fair; Cartoon by ‘Tomtitt’, New Age
