Lilias Rider Haggard

Lilias Margitson Rider Haggard, MBE (9 December 1892 – 9 January 1968) was the fourth and youngest child of the British writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Mariana Louisa Margitson.[1]

She was educated at Saint Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk and was awarded an MBE for her work as an auxiliary nurse during World War I.[1] She was a member of Norfolk County Council from 1949 to 1952 and in 1953 was elected President of the Norfolk Rural Craftsmen's Guild.[1]

She wrote a number of books, including a biography of her father entitled The Cloak That I Left. Her book Norfolk Life, based on columns she wrote for the Eastern Daily Press, contains an introduction by Henry Williamson.

She is buried at Ditchingham, Norfolk[2] and is the subject of a 2015 biography by Victoria Manthorpe.[3]

Books
  • I Walked by Night: Being the Life History of the King of the Norfolk Poachers, written by himself, editor (1935), illus. Edward Seago
  • The Rabbit Skin Cap: A Tale of a Norfolk Countryman's Youth, editor (1939), illus. Edward Seago
  • Norfolk Life (1943), with Henry Williamson
  • A Norfolk Notebook (1946)
  • A Country Scrapbook (1950), illus. Wilfred S. Pettitt
  • The Cloak That I Left: A Biography of the Author Henry Rider Haggard (1951)
  • Too Late for Tears (1969), a biography of her mother and her family

References
  1. Dawson Haggard D.,The History of the Haggard Family in England and America: 1433-1899 (Albany, New York, 1899) - retrieved online at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 8 February 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) on 3 October 2010
  2. Literary Norfolk (2007) - retrieved online at http://www.literarynorfolk.co.uk/ditchingham.htm on 3 October 2010
  3. Manthorpe, V., Lilias Rider Haggard: Countrywoman (Poppyland Publishing, 2015)
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