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Henry Rider
Haggard (1856-1925) recalled that She was written at 'white
heat' early in 1886, during a particularly prolific period inspired
by vivid memories of his life in Africa as a young man. Serialisation
in The Graphic was followed by publication as a 6 shilling
volume - according to its author, 'the first or one of the first
novels that was published in that form'. Within three months sales
had reached 30,000 copies, persuading Haggard (who was to become
a fierce critic of the circulating libraries) to abandon the conventional
three-volume form for all but one of his future novels.
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