One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
H Haggard Ryder (1856-1925)
'For the valley of the Waveney I see the vale of Tenoctitlan... for the spire of Earsham and the towers of Ditchingham, of Bungay, and of Beccles, the soaring pyramids of sacrifice gleaming with sacred fires, and for the cattle in the meadows the horsemen of Cortes sweeping to war.'
The author of King Solomon's Mines (1885) - written in just six weeks after a bet with his brother - and She (1887), Rider Haggard can rightly claim to be one of Norfolk's most famous literary sons. Born at Bradenham, but spending much of his life writing and farming at Ditchingham, Haggard was a traveller, campaigner and adventurer whose fiction owes much to his experiences in South Africa at the turn of the century but whose family roots are embedded deeply into the Norfolk soil. Buried at St Mary's, Ditchingham, Haggard is remembered as a prolific author whose novels laid the basis for modern adventure romance.
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