History Creator / HRiderHaggard

* CouldntFindAPen: In ''Mr Meeson's Will'', a dying millionaire trapped on a desert island has his will tattooed on the back of a fellow castaway.

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: In ''Mary of Marion Isle''

* MightyWhitey: In ''Montezuma's Daughter'', an Englishman leads Mexican natives in their struggle against Spanish colonizers.
* RaisedByWolves: Galazi the Wolf in ''Nada the Lily'' claims to have been raised by jackals , and everything we see in the novel bears out this claim. Creator/RudyardKipling acknowledged Galazi as one his inspirations for creating Mowgli in ''Literature/TheJungleBook''.

* SeductiveMummy: Ma-Mee from ''Smith and the Pharaohs''.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Several of Haggard's novels, such as ''Nada the Lily'', are titled after the hero's love interest, even if she is not not the main focus of the novel.

Henry Rider Haggard (22 June 1856 – 14 May 1925), English writer of adventure stories, often set in Africa (he had spent seven years in South Africa as a young man).

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).

* EmbarrassingTattoo: The heroine of ''Mr Meeson's Will''has the eponymous will [[HumanNotepad tattooed on her back]] after she and Meeson are stranded on a desert island with no writing materials. At the end of the novel, her new husband comments on what an immense sacrifice this was for a young Victorian lady, as it meant she could never be presented at court where she as she would have to wear an off-the-shoulder gown.

* HumanNotepad: The heroine of ''Mr Meeson's Will'' has the eponymous will tattooed on her back after she and Meeson's are stranded on a desert island with no writing materials.

* SecondaryCharacterTitle: Several of Haggard's novels are titled after the hero's love interest, even if she is not not the main focus of the novel. ''Nada the Lily'' is an excellent example.