Lauren returns to the cabin to discuss all things H.R. Haggard, especially his deep obsession with ancient Egypt.
We cover:
-Haggard in ‘Who’s Who in Egyptology’
-his own visits to Egypt
-his writing of ‘Cleopatra’
-his mania for collecting Egyptian rings
-his dislike for modern, changing Egypt
-his friendship with Howard Carter
-his attempts to exonerate Western archaeologists
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My H Rider Haggard favourites: She (1887) Cleopatra (1889) Smith and the Pharaohs (1912-13 serially)
Visualhaggard.org all of Haggard’s illustrations
Books:
The Cloak that I Left by Lilias Haggard, (Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1951)
The Mummy’s Curse by Roger Luckhurst (Oxford University Press 2012)
The Mummy’s Curse by Jasmine Day (Routledge, 2006)
The Days of my Life by H Rider Haggard (written 1910-12, published posthumously in 1926 in 2 volumes)
You can read all of Haggard’s works for free on Project Gutenberg