While Olive Schreiner was born and lived for years in South Africa, she remains important to the British writing tradition as the first colonial novelist held important by British readers. She brought a manuscript with her when, at age 26,… Read More ›
Like Henry Rider Haggard’s other romance novels set in Africa, including King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and Allan Quatermain (1887), She: A History of Adventure is based in part on Haggard’s experience in that country. As assistant to Sir Henry Bulwer,… Read More ›
Henry Rider Haggard wrote Allan Quatermain as a sequel to his popular first novel, King Solomon’s Mines (1885). An instant best-seller, it appeared as a serial in Longman’s Magazine between January and August of 1887. As a young fan, Winston… Read More ›
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