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Word: haggard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rider Haggard's latest novel, the tattooing on the shoulders of the heroine of the will of a rich old man cast away on a desert island is made the startling and essential incident of the story...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/15/1888 | See Source »

...said that H. Rider Haggard is at work on the sequel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/12/1888 | See Source »

...startling ideas. It is a description of a Harvard's man's attempt to conjure up a suitable plot for a story. Whether he succeeds or not is left for the reader to judge. A human being with such a prolific imagination would have the making of a Rider Haggard. The story is very brightly and interestingly told and has the merit of singular originality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Advocate." | 2/7/1888 | See Source »

...Haggard's best novel has had a curious experience in an English public library. "King Solomon's Mines" is placed among the works on mineralogy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/7/1887 | See Source »

...much wisdom. Nobody seems to know where to look for the books, and the poor library boy doesn't wear the hale and hearty look of our little red-haired friend. Sent out after a book at 12 on Monday, he arrives panting, fagged out, pale and haggard at 11.45 on Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOME INTERESTTING AND SUGGESTIYT EXPERIENCES IN A GERMAN LIBRARY. | 11/3/1885 | See Source »

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