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Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (10 January 1885).
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Mr. Haggard knows a good deal about Zululand, and rifle shooting, and of the wilder pleasures of the country, and he has contrived to make a lively story out of these and other materials.
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it was extremely well received and within certain limits very successful." The 1893 edition was illustrated by
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Haggard later named his daughter Dorothy after the heroine in the novel.
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The book was a minor success, earning Haggard a profit of fifty pounds.
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H. Rider Haggard
Adventure novel
Hurst and Blackett
The Witch's Head
Wikisource
H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
Charles H. M. Kerr
R.D. Mullen, The Books of H. Rider Haggard: A Chronological Survey Science Fiction Studies, # 16 = Volume 5, Part 3 = November 1978


H. Rider Haggard, The Days of My Life Chapter 9
"Rider Haggard"
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"Review: The Witch's Head by H. Rider Haggard"
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