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[[File:H-Rider-Haggard.jpg|thumb|300px|Sir Rider Haggard in 1902. Photo by George Charles Beresford.]]
'''Henry Rider Haggard''' (1856 – 1925), English writer of adventure stories, often set in Africa (he had spent seven years in South Africa as a young man).
 
His two best-known novels are ''[[King Solomons Mines (Literature)|King SolomonsSolomon's Mines]]'', in which a group of Englishmen, guided by the hunter Allan Quatermain, go in search of the eponymous treasure chamber; and ''[[She (Literature)|She]]'', in which Leo Vincey and Horace Holly are guided by a Vincey heirloom to a lost African kingdom ruled by the immortal queen Ayesha, whose subjects call her "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed". Both have numerous prequels and sequels -- including (perhaps inevitably) ''She and Allan'', which is a prequel to both -- and both have been filmed multiple times.
 
=== {{examples|Works by H. Rider Haggard with their own trope page include: ===}}
* ''[[SheKing (Literature)|SheSolomon's Mines]]'' and sequels
* ''[[She]]'' and sequels
 
* ''[[King Solomons Mines (Literature)|King Solomons Mines]]'' and sequels
* ''[[She (Literature)|She]]'' and sequels
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=== {{examples|H. Rider Haggard's other works include examples of: ===}}
 
* [[Darkest Africa]]
* [[Death of the Hypotenuse]]: In ''Mary of Marion Isle''