Adventure biography

The universe is really full of ghosts - not cemetery ghosts in the funeral shrouds, but unquenchable, immortal particles of life, which, once arising, never die, although they imperceptibly merge one and change, change forever. Henry Ryder Haggard. The copy of Tsar Solomon Henry Ryder Haggard was born on June 22 in West Brandenham, a small village in the county of Norfolk, in the east of England.

He was the eighth child in the large family of the local lawyer William Haggard and the unprofessional poet Ella Haggard. The Danish, Russian and Indian roots of the writer of the writer were the Danes. William Meib Ryder Haggard the biography of the parents of the future writer was not so heroic, but no less romantic. Yes, yes - the dad and grandmother of the author of the "cream of King Solomon" were on the shores of the Neva!

This twice curious fact is strangely silent in some biographies of the writer, the English Wikipedia ignores the Russian grandmother, and the most serious American researcher Morton Cohen is the place of birth of both, but Haggard himself does not consider it superfluous to remember all his Slavic relatives, including great-grandfather-buyer. As for her mother, Ella Verbaton, the daughter of an English colonial official, was born in India, in Bombay, here she married Mr.

William M. Haggard and soon moved to Europe. The writer's parents, due to their exotic roots, were energetic people, but completely different in nature, which did not prevent them from creating a strong large family. Father, a sort of town king, was very powerful and eccentric in his actions, loved to call the bells from the heart and could right away from the threshold with his loud voice, frightening the whole street.

It seems that he served as the prototype of the old Sir James de la Mol, one of the characters in Haggard’s novel “Colonel Kvarich, Cavalier of the Cross of Victoria”. The mother of the future writer - a thin spiritual nature - composed poems, played music, painted well. Her main talent is the invariable warmth in communication, the ability to quickly find and note something important in the character of the interlocutor.

As the writer himself will not without surprise in the future, she was in a completely incomprehensible way to grow all her ten children with good people, having managed to instill a persistent desire for faith and righteousness. Despite the daily household chores, she always managed to find small intervals of time also to engage in gardening, reading and personal creativity. Ryder 19 years old childhood and youth of the writer in early childhood Ryder called him in the family was a capricious and rather stupid boy.

Studying at school was difficult, and his father was forced to give young lezboka to individual education to the Monk Father Graham, a priest of the Garcington parish near Oxford. The memory did not preserve too many of those lessons, but the future novelist forever remembered how, during one of the sermons of the Honorable Patter Graham, the head of a neighboring donkey appeared in the doors of the altar, who, like an echo, began to vote that there was urine.

Is it possible to forget this? The shock was so strong that Haggard decided to perpetuate in his work the name of the owner of this donkey, a skinny farmer, who was always very kind with a boy. So everyone called him. Who does not know this surname now? The reputation of the nearby young man, who always thought about something of his own and was terribly slow during the lessons, was firmly entrenched in the young rider.

Accurate sciences, especially mathematics, have caught up on him longing. After the "juror" of the foundations of the village of Agricultural-by-Winding a couple of years, Haggard spent another couple of years within the walls of the Ipswich secondary school. Here, a sleepy young man had to start. Among the local students, rather rude morals reigned. Squeezing with their own importance, the teachers carried the fire of knowledge, not noticing that in the reflections of the flame, their children violently mutter and humiliate each other.

They raptily discussed the significance of Dickens and the “school years of Tom Brown”, as if about life on another planet. Under the pressure of the circumstances, the young man, the son of his parents, began to change, show character and literary gift: he always gave change and even got into the list of winners for the school essay! Haggard was especially succeeded in two things: Latin another prize - for the versification, “Thank you, mother!

At the end of the school, his father sent Ryder to London, finding him a private tutor, a French teacher who was supposed to prepare a young man who was serving some hope in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In those years, Haggard read a lot of French novels, among which there were “three musketeers”, which became one of the “books for life”. Subsequently, in one of the articles, the writer admitted that he was not too passionate book, calling a small clip of books that had a serious influence on him.

Among the most-senior, more than once read-re-read, he identified only two novels: “The Tale of the two cities” of Dickens and the “coming race” of the same Boulege of Litton.The tragic love and worlds hidden from the eyes of civilization - the themes of these two books will become the main in the work of Haggard. Dichingham House, the Haggard estate in Norfolka, the loneliness of a rural resident in Bolshoi London, a craving for ancient history, all interesting and mysterious made a rider a frequent guest in the house of the old lady Paulet with Hannover-Square, where the spirituals and mediums were going to read fate from the palm of the hand and tried to look after the invisible grains of the world of people and the world things.

This is another topic that will be a frequent guest in the novels of the writer. In the end, life in Africa, in the end, Haggard, having caught that his son is not very serious about French, decided to find a place for him, where you are not too mock. In the year, a young lover of palmistry and diralum was sent away from stupid things and temptations of civilization - a caring father exhausted his position of secretary at the English governor of the South African province of Natal.

Having taken office, the nineteen -year -old rider quickly adapted. Firstly, his boss, Sir Henry Bulver, is a fellow countryman from Norfolk, and even his nephew of his beloved writer. Secondly, a wild black continent-what could be more unusual and mysterious for the son of an old conservative? Under the shoes and around gray antiquity. Africa is the mysterious cradle of mankind!

To his bride, Lilly Jackson, the young man promises to return as soon as he firmly starts to marry her and make a family. Ryder enthusiastically begins to study the life and customs of Zulusov, travels a lot around the country.

The natives with sympathy belong to the curious Englishman, calling him "Indanda" "man of tall and good disposition." In the year, Haggard receives an appointment to the post of manager and registrar of the Supreme Court in a transvaal. Upon learning that his son’s career went uphill, his father wrote a response letter, where in a rather rude form he forbade his son to come to England to settle heart affairs.

Feeling the hand of fate on his neck, Haggard fell into despair. Love for his father, who, despite his impulsiveness, always took care of him, did not allow the rider to go against his parental will. As a result, the possible happiness of two people was broken. Lilly Jackson married a successful banker, but her subsequent family life was unsuccessful. Realizing that nothing to return, Haggard becomes a fatalist.

In the year, he returns to Norfolk and marries his sister's girlfriend, Mariana Louise Mardzitson. The marriage was happy. Ryder became a caring husband and father, but he could not forget his love for Lilly. All his life he will suffer from this unrequited feeling, embodying an unfulfilled dream in the vivid images of the heroines of his books: Cleopatra, Aisha, the beautiful Margaret, Otomi - the daughters of Montesum.

Interesting observations recorded in the diary lead a young man to the idea of ​​a literary career. But Haggard Sr. does not believe in the literary talent of his son “Peree Pisak! Ryder nods silently and, together with his young wife, leaves for Africa, deciding to engage in farm. Here, the first-born was born at the young couple, affairs on the farm bring income, but the Transvaal is covered by the fire of uprisings against the British colonists the first Anglo-Boer war, and the Haggard, selling all things from the auction, returned to their homeland.

Africa forever remained in the heart of Haggard. There he survived a lot that forms the character of a man, where he knew the bitterness and joy of life, his son was born there. The whole power of his feelings, the love and sadness, scorched by the orange sun of Africa, the writer transferred to the pages of books that are reading and re -read generation after generation. The wife of the writer, Mrs.

Mariana Haggard with his daughters, the literary career in the year Haggard publishes his first book Kechvaio and his white neighbors, a brief historical and ethnographic work about the transvaal and zulus. Only one London publisher became interested in the book, who agreed to publish it at the expense of the author. It was sold neither Shatko nor Valkko, although she earned the positive reviews of some English officials, among others - Lord Karnarvon, Secretary of State in the Affairs of the Colonies, who held this post during the time of the Haggard service in South Africa.

A novice writer does not lose heart and continues to engage in agriculture, Agnes-Endela was born in January, growing children in January. Grandma is happy, grandfather too. Their son is a good family man and a strong business executive, what else to wish for the provincial landowners? In the year, Haggard Jr. pleased his parents even more-for the third time he became a father and passed an exam for a lawyer.

Sir William raised a worthy shift. But, as in childhood, parallel thoughts roam in the head of a newly -minted lawyer. Like Kenelm Chillingley, the hero of his beloved novel, Ryder has long realized that there are “other objects, except for turnips and livestock that relate to practical life,” deciding that “in the field of thought, literature can take it, and in the field of action there is a politician”.

Haggard will drive all England along and across, draw up a report on the state of agriculture and the position of the country's rural population. He will take part in the preparation of British agrarian reform. But this is all later. And now - write. The first novels, the “Dawn” and “The Witch's Head”, created one after another and published in M, won some success. Two daughters of Haggard, Andla and Dorothy, who were born during the literary throwing of the new novelist, were named after the main heroines of these books.

Haggard and his youngest daughter Lilias are not quite the Haggard that we know, although African motifs and mysticism will flash on some pages of these “romantic stories from modern life”. The writer did not think too much where to direct the highway of his work, until once the famous dispute with his brother took place, who considered that the rider could not create an exciting adventure novel in the spirit of the Treasure Island.

Having concluded a comic bet on 5 shillings, Haggard writes “Copes of Tsar Solomon” in just 6 weeks, a book, after which he, as they say, woke up famous. So you can also add to the list of the most significant works for the Haggard, Stevenson’s novel, but not one. Haggarda earned a special praise of the Great Scotch, the “ruler of Ballantre”, as well as “Dr. Jekil and Mr. Hyde”, a story, while reading whose fearless lawyer from Norfol, according to his own admission, even stood on his head on end.

Stevenson, too, did not ignore the work of Haggard, they personally never met, but the author of the “Treasure Island” wrote several enthusiastic letters to his colleague after reading “King Solomon”. There was not a word about the neighbor’s neighbor by the quota -terrain, whose surname is the main character of the book. Haggard once again visited that glorious village near Oxford, and even the younger brother of the farmer was incredibly surprised and moved that his forgotten, dead relative was so accurately described in the “Real Book!

The work and refinement of the manuscript took January - April - April almost immediately after the “spear”, in the summer of the same year, without waiting for the impending publication, Haggard wrote a continuation - the novel “Allan Quotermein”, dedicating it to his son. The publication of this book dragged on for a couple of years. The next novel was Jess. The story from the times of the Anglo-Broke War, ”which Haggard dedicated his wife, completing him on the last day of December.

The year turned out to be a fruitful one. The story of one adventure ”Haggard began to write in early February and finished it on March 18.