The novel was an early example ( and Haggard's introduction implies it was the first ) of modern efforts in English at pastiching Viking saga literature.

Jules Verne's first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon published in 1863 and H. Rider Haggard's first novel King Solomon's Mines published in 1885, both describe journeys of English travellers on Safari and were best sellers in their day.

Also in country music, Merle Haggard's Same Train, Different Time, a tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was enormously popular and influenced the development of the Bakersfield sound into outlaw country within a few years.

This peak was originally named Aysha in the 1904 maps of the region, and was renamed Ayesha after the heroine of Rider Haggard's 1887 novel She.

Haggard's father died when Merle was nine years old.

Haggard's first song was " Skid Row ".

In 1968, Haggard's first tribute LP Same Train, Different Time: A Tribute to Jimmie Rodgers, was released to acclaim.

Haggard's next LP was A Tribute to the Best Damn Fiddle Player in the World ( or, My Salute to Bob Wills ), which helped spark a permanent revival and expanded audience for western swing.

Haggard's last number one hit was " Twinkle, Twinkle Lucky Star " from his smash album Chill Factor in 1988.

According to Haggard's daughter Lilias, the phrase " She-who-must-be-obeyed " originated from his childhood and " the particularly hideous aspect " of one rag-doll: " This doll was something of a fetish, and Rider, as a small child, was terrified of her, a fact soon discovered by an unscrupulous nurse who made full use of it to frighten him into obedience.

Rider Haggard's writing style was the source of much criticism in reviews of She and his other works.

Even in King Solomon's Mines, the representation of Umbopa ( who was based on an actual warrior ) and the Kukuanas, drew upon Haggard's knowledge and understanding of the Zulus.

Many scholars have noted how She was published as a book in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, and Andrienne Munich argues that Haggard's story " could fittingly be considered an ominous literary monument to Victoria after fifty years of her reign ".

In 1949, Granger made the move ; MGM was looking for someone to play H. Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quatermain in a film version of King Solomon's Mines.

And in the early 1970s, Merle Haggard's country song Okie from Muskogee was a hit on national airwaves.

* In H. Rider Haggard's Montezuma's Daughter, when Otomie the princess is made to wear the garb of a low-class woman in order to escape imprisonment, the narrator states that " for her proud heart, that dress was the very shirt of Nessus.

It is possible, given Marland's affinity for classic and pulp literature that McCord was also partially inspired by H. Rider Haggard's character Allan Quatermain, who was a heavy influence on the Indiana Jones character.

Eisner said an inspiration for the character's name was H. Rider Haggard's 1886 jungle-goddess novel She.

H. Rider Haggard's Quatermain, adventure hero of King Solomon's Mines and sequel Allan Quatermain, was a template for the American film character Indiana Jones, featured in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Despite the tremendous liberties both movies took with the source material, Allan Quatermain was loosely based, mostly, on the book sequel of Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, entitled Allan Quatermain.

Yet as Stauffer notes, " Ultimately, however, one thinks of Haggard's plots, episodes, and images as the source of his lasting reputation and influence.

The main-line departure platform slumbered like the rest ; the booking-hutches closed ; the backs of Mr Haggard's novels, with which upon a weekday the bookstall shines emblazoned, discreetly hidden behind dingy shutters ; the rare officials, undisguisedly somnambulant ; and the customary loiterers, even to the middle-aged woman with the ulster and the handbag, fled to more congenial scenes.

The similarities between Haggard's close friend Burnham and his Quatermain character are striking: both small and wiry Victorian adventurers in colonial Africa, both sought and discovered ancient treasures and civilizations, both battled large wild animals and native peoples, both were renowned for their ability to track, even at night, and both men had similar nicknames: Quatermain, " Watcher-by-Night "; Burnham, " He-who-sees-in-the-dark ".

Rider Haggard's recreation of the Sherd of Amenartas, now in the collection of the Norwich Castle Museum. Haggard contended that romances such as She or King Solomon's Mines were best left unrevised, because " wine of this character loses its bouquet when it is poured from glass to glass.

The name derives from a stock character in African-American oral traditions, " Joe the Grinder ," who is also prominent in Merle Haggard's song " The Old Man of the Mountain.

The Allan Quatermain character has been expanded greatly by modern writers ; this use is possibly due to Haggard's works passing into the public domain, much like Sherlock Holmes.

None of the above works portray Haggard's Quatermain accurately in age, appearance, or character.

The other two were among the best in Scott's career: Village Tale ( 1935 ), " a touching, still-obscure melodrama about small-town gossip and hypocrisy " directed by John Cromwell, and She ( 1935 ), a superb adventure-fantasy adapted from H. Rider Haggard's 1886 novel.

She also explained Merle Haggard's influence on her career, stating " I had every album he ever put out ", and would sing " every song he did ", along with her brother, Pake and sister, Susie.

There are several parallels between the White Witch and the immortal protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's She, a novel greatly admired by C. S.

According to the literary historian Andrew M. Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

She is placed firmly in the imperialist literature of nineteenth-century England, and inspired by Rider Haggard's experiences of South Africa and British colonialism.

Along with Haggard's prior novel, King Solomon's Mines, She laid the blueprints for the " Lost World " sub-genre in fantasy literature, as well as the convention of the " lost race ".

Indeed, there is a strong Darwinian undercurrent framing the representation of race in She, stemming from Haggard's own interest in evolutionary theory and archaeological history.

According to Stauffer, " She has always been Rider Haggard's most popular and influential novel, challenged only by King Solomon's Mines in this regard ".

" Desire, Fascination and the Other: Some Thoughts on Jung's Interest in Rider Haggard's ' She ' and on the Nature of Archetypes ", Harvest: International Journal for Jungian Studies, 2004, Vol.

The movie, based on H. Rider Haggard's novel of the same name, is perhaps best known for popularizing a phrase from the novel, " She who must be obeyed.

Miller is also the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Roof of the World ; Or, The Adventure of the Wayfaring God, a pastiche of H. Rider Haggard's She.

During October 1919, literary critic Harry Magden alleged that Benoit, in writing L ' Atlantide, had plagiarised H. Rider Haggard's She and The Yellow God.

The country is said to be ruled by a queen who lives forever ( probably a reference to H. Rider Haggard's She ).

The Rain Queen was referenced in literature as a basis for H. Rider Haggard's novel She.

In this tale we can discern the influence of She by H. Rider Haggard and the lost city of Opar that appears in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs Howard's Negari is ruled by the seductive queen Nakari, recalling Haggard's Ayesha and Burroughs ' La of Opar.

Mitchell appeared ( as Hector ) in the bizarre 1982 Israeli adaptation, directed by Avi Nesher, of H. Rider Haggard's She, which starred Sandahl Bergman.

H. Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which sometime included fantasy works as in Haggard's own She.

The title of the Umberto Eco novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana ( 2004 ) is taken from the title of a strip episode, in turn inspired by H. Rider Haggard's novel She.