Ayesha
Ayesha, The Return of She is the sequel to She (1887) (and therefore She and Allan [1921] and Wisdom’s Daughter [1923]). In this romance Leo Vincey and Horace Holly seek Ayesha in Tibet. Haggard wrote Ayesha twenty years after publishing She in a hiatus he frames as deliberate, and “in obedience to my original plan” (qtd. Whatmore 43).
Windsor Magazine serialized Ayesha between December 1904 and October 1905 in a printing that included illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, published the 1st US edition on 6 October 1905. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch also serialized this novel in the Sunday numbers weekly from 3 September to 10 December 1905, in a run illustrated by Martin and McEvoy. Ward Lock and Co., London, published Ayesha on 6 October 1905, in a printing accompanied by 32 full-page illustrations by Greiffenhagen. 25,000 copies printed. The first Canadian edition was published by William Briggs, Toronto, in 1905. This printing included eight of Greiffenhagen's illustrations. Tauchnitz of Leipzig published a copyright edition in 1905 in two volumes. In 1908 Ward Lock and Co. published a paperback edition of Ayesha with an illustrated cover and 8 illustrations by Greiffenhagen.
Windsor Magazine serialized Ayesha between December 1904 and October 1905 in a printing that included illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, published the 1st US edition on 6 October 1905. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch also serialized this novel in the Sunday numbers weekly from 3 September to 10 December 1905, in a run illustrated by Martin and McEvoy. Ward Lock and Co., London, published Ayesha on 6 October 1905, in a printing accompanied by 32 full-page illustrations by Greiffenhagen. 25,000 copies printed. The first Canadian edition was published by William Briggs, Toronto, in 1905. This printing included eight of Greiffenhagen's illustrations. Tauchnitz of Leipzig published a copyright edition in 1905 in two volumes. In 1908 Ward Lock and Co. published a paperback edition of Ayesha with an illustrated cover and 8 illustrations by Greiffenhagen.
Further Reading
Haggard, H. Rider. The Days of My Life, An Autobiography. 2 Vols. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1926. II: 203.
Pocock, Tom. Rider Haggard and the Lost Empire. London: Weidenfeld and Nicoloson, 1993. 131, 148.
Whatmore, D.E.. H Rider Haggard: A Bibliography. Westport, CT: Meckler Publishing Co., 1987. F28, 42-43.
Editions of Ayesha
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 111. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 December 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 20. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 10 September 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 83. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 12 November 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 56. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 15 October 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 27. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 17 September 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 90. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19 November 1905.
1st UK edition. London: Ward Lock & Co., 1905.
1st CA edition. Toronto: William Briggs, 1905.
1st US edition. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905.
Romantica Mondiale Sonzogno. Milano: Casa Editrice Sonzogno, 1932.
1st Edition Thus. New York: Del Rey, 1976.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 62. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22 October 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 34. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 24 September 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 41. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 24 September 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 97. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 26 November 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 69. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 29 October 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 104. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 December 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 13. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3 September 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 76. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 5 November 1905.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, vol. 58, no. 48. St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 8 October 1905.
The Popular Magazine, vol. 3, no. 6. New York: Street & Smith, April 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 21. London: Ward, Lock & Co., April 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 22. London: Ward, Lock & Co., August 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 21. London: Ward, Lock &. Co., December 1904.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 21. London: Ward, Lock &. Co., February 1905.
The Popular Magazine, vol. 3, no. 3. New York: Street & Smith, January 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 21. London: Ward, Lock &. Co., January 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 22. London: Ward, Lock & Co., July 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 22. London: Ward, Lock & Co., June 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 21. London: Ward, Lock &. Co., March 1905.
The Popular Magazine, vol. 3, no. 5. New York: Street & Smith, March 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 21. London: Ward, Lock &. Co., May 1905.
The Windsor Magazine, vol. 22. London: Ward, Lock & Co., September 1905.
Illustrations from Ayesha
