Henry Rider Haggard, She

Lee Anna Maynard (Auburn University Montgomery)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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First circulation or publication 1887

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England (Country of Origin)

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She

was first published in the illustrated weekly

The Graphic

from October 1886 to January 1887, then as a volume by Harper's Franklin Square Library on 24 December 1886 and on 1st January 1887 by Longmans & Co. in London. The US edition had 14 full page illustrations by E. K. Johnson, but the British had to wait until 1888 for the first illustrated UK edition, this having adding 32 illustrations, 19 of which are full page, by Maurice Greiffenhagen & C. H. M. Kerr. The relation of these texts to the publishing of illustrated magazines and novels, especially for the colonial or imperial market, should always be born in mind.

As an adventure novel set primarily in nineteenth-century Africa's most mysterious and inaccessible regions, H. Rider Haggard's She capitalizes on the Victorian

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Citation: Maynard, Lee Anna. "She". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 April 2007 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=9802, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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