Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: Rider Haggard

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899'Frances Stevenson, born in 1888, recollected [in The years that Are Past, 1967] that she "read greedily [pre-1914] .....Frances Stevenson Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899"'More even than with the contemptible inexpressiveness of the whole thing,' Henry James wrote after reading She ... '...Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Hardy, to whom [Rider] Haggard sent his Norse adventure "Eric Brighteyes" (1891), was roused by "a wild illust...Thomas Hardy Rider HaggardEric BrighteyesPrint: Book
1900-1945'Percy Wall described his [colliery] institute as a "blatantly utilitarian" building with a "square cemented front" an...Percy Wall Henry Rider Haggard[African stories]Print: Book
1900-1945'It is equally possible for the same reader to adopt different frames for the same story, relishing it on one level wh...Aneurin Bevan H. Rider Haggard[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'Growing up in Lyndhurst after the First World War, R.L. Wild regularly read aloud to his marginally literate grandmot...R.L. Wild Henry Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1900-1945'W.J. Brown was introduced to literature by "Robinson Crusoe", "She", "The Last of the Mohicans", and "Around the Worl...William John Brown Henry Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an...Henry James H. Rider HaggardKing Solomon's MinesPrint: Book
1850-1899Henry James to Robert Louis Stevenson, 2 August 1886: "Since I saw you [on Sunday 1 August] I have finished Solomon an...Henry James H. Rider HaggardShePrint: Book
1900-1945'Kipling had now been supplemented with Henty, Ballantyne, Rider Haggard and John Buchan, all with their own tales of...Lawrence Durrell Henry Rider Haggard[unknown]Print: Book
1900-1945'In a BBC talk of 1947 about the book that had most influenced her early years, she chose to talk about Rider Haggard'...Elizabeth Bowen Henry Rider HaggardShePrint: Book

 

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