Haggard was educated at Ipswich Grammar School. In 1875, after a failed attempt to enlist in the army, Haggard went to Natal as secretary to Sir Henry Bulwer, the then governor of the colony. In 1877, he joined the staff of the special commissioner and became Master and Registrar of the High Court in the Transvaal in 1877. He returned to England and married, then moved back to Transvaal with his wife where they resided at his ostrich farm until the Transvall was ceded to the Dutch. Back in England again, Haggard was admitted to the bar in 1884, although he hardly ever practiced the law, but rather devoted himself to writing. He was a prolific author of over 40 novels and whose best known work is probably King Solomon's Mines (1885). Some of his most successful works are She (1887), Allan Quatermain (1887), Cleopatra(1889), Montezuma's Daughter (1899), Ayesha: The Return of She (1905), Queen Sheba's Ring (1910), Moon of Israel (1918) and Treasure of the Lake (1926). Haggard also produced a number of non-fiction works such as The Poor and the Land (1905), Rural England (1902) and Rural Denmark (1911). Haggard was knighted in 1912 and became Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1919. |
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