H. Rider Haggard

Born into a large Norfolk family and educated at Ipswich Grammar after a brief stint at Garsington Rectory, H. Rider Haggard entered colonial administration in South Africa before returning to England, where he qualified as a barrister in 1884. Choosing literature over law, he produced a prolific body of adventure fiction, pioneering the lost-world genre with the inaugural Allan Quatermain tale, K… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources