She: A History of Adventure, is a Gothic novel by the English writer H. Rider Haggard, published in book form in 1887 following serialisation in The Graphic...
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books by John Buchan and H. Rider Haggard, especially the 1887 She: A History of Adventure. Tolkien stated that he used the fight with werewolves in Samuel...
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397), Later Qin dynasty She: A History of Adventure, an 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard, and its film adaptations She (1911 film), a silent short film featuring...
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She is a 1965 British adventure film made by Hammer Film Productions in CinemaScope, based on the 1887 novel by H. Rider Haggard. It was directed by Robert...
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Masalanabo Modjadji (category Year of birth missing)
inspiration for H. Rider Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure. However, the praise for the influence of female authority on the book is not without...
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She is a 1935 American adventure film produced by Merian C. Cooper. It is based on the 1887 novel of the same name by H. Rider Haggard. A man named Leo...
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life of the adventurer Allan Quatermain—which was followed by She: A History of Adventure (1886), which introduced the female character Ayesha, both of which...
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Rain Queen (redirect from The Rain Queens of Balobedu)
for H. Rider Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure. The Marvel Comics character Storm is a fictional descendant of the dynasty that produces the...
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Haggard's 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure. Set 23 years after a nuclear war called "The Cancellation," in a land of warring tribes, the film follows...
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Sword and sorcery (section History)
heroic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. Elements of romance, magic, and...
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Lancelot Speed (category Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge)
books. Speed is credited as the designer of the 1916 silent film version of the novel She: A History of Adventure by H. Rider Haggard, which he illustrated...
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The Globe and Mail on Choose Your Own Adventure: "The Choose Your Own Adventure DVD movies are adaptations of the original books, which sold more than...
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Galadriel (redirect from Lady of Lórien)
his 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure, a book that Tolkien acknowledged as an important influence, and to Tennyson's The Lady of Shalott, which recast...
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Allan Quatermain (section Summaries of the stories)
Hans, a wise and caring family retainer from his youth. His sarcastic comments offer a sharp critique of European conventions. In his final adventures, Quatermain...
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The history of eugenics is the study of development and advocacy of ideas related to eugenics around the world. Early eugenic ideas were discussed in...
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dictionary. She Who Must Be Obeyed or SWMBO may refer to: the lead character in novels by H. Rider Haggard, and film adaptations She: A History of Adventure, 1886...
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King Solomon's Mines (category British adventure novels)
Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. Published by Cassell and Company, it tells of an expedition through an unexplored region of Africa...
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H. Rider Haggard (category Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction romances set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre...
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Wakkerstroom (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
have been declared national monuments. H. Rider Haggard's novel She: A History of Adventure was written while he lived on Hoog Street. The bridge dates to...
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powerful and beautiful eponymous heroine of Rider Haggard's 1887 lost world adventure fantasy She: A History of Adventure. Burns points out numerous similarities...
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of occultism. It is strongly applied in The Ancient Allan (as well as in a few other Quatermain adventures, such as She and Allan) that the curse of the...
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of She: A History of Adventure in 1889 – though Greiffenhagen apparently "disliked doing black-and-white work". He illustrated the serialisation of Ayesha...
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Lost world (category Adventure fiction)
Sir H. Rider Haggard She: A History of Adventure by Sir H. Rider Haggard Allan Quatermain by Sir H. Rider Haggard The People of the Mist by Sir H. Rider...
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Jungle girl (category Adventure fiction)
but eternally youthful sorceress Ayesha in H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure (1886). The first forest-dwelling character in fiction was Rima...
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Juliet E. McKenna (category Alumni of St Hilda's College, Oxford)
McKenna's 2012 She-who-thinks-for-herself, as "a cunning, funny... feminist rewrite" of H. Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure. McKenna is married...
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Thingol (category The Children of Húrin characters)
writing that she resembles Rider Haggard's infinitely desirable Arthurian muse, Ayesha of his 1887 novel She: A History of Adventure. The scholar of religion...
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best-selling novel, She: A History of Adventure. Now considered lost, the film starred Valeska Suratt and Ben Taggart. Valeska Suratt as Ayesha, 'She' Ben Taggart...
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(1887). She: A History of Adventure. Hartmann, F. (1887). An Adventure among the Rosicrucians. Occult Pub. Co. ———— (1890). The Talking Image of Urur. ————...
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against other characterizations of her in Henry Rider Haggard's She: A History of Adventure, Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida (frequently featured in the novel)...
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She is a 1925 British-German fantasy adventure film made by Reciprocity Films, co-directed by Leander de Cordova and G. B. Samuelson, and starring Betty...
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